Code and prose aren't the only things that need editing and pruning, company costs do too. There's an aesthetic quality to cutting needless costs, and seeing a tighter, clearer balance sheet. Beautiful code, beautiful prose, beautiful accounts.

Beautiful balance sheets reflect a company's thoughtful decisions, just as polished writing showcases a writer's dedication to their craft!

This is true. Simplicity of company structure and admin is as important as simplicity of tech even more so if you’re a solo dev. Every minute spend on admin is not spent on improving your core value proposition.

Great insight, this is what @DOGE is all about lol

“Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.” – Sam Walton

Minimalist accounts are a visual delight to me too 🤩

Next thing you know he’ll be espousing the benefits of aesthetically pleasing employment contracts with well put together non-compete clauses and droolworthy IP assignment clauses. Oh baby.

Mismanagement in one place hints at mismanagement in other areas.

Absolutely! Some devs would just used another cloud service build over AWS even for smallest things. And end up using atleast 10 services, with literally 100 users per day. Overthinking about future what’s gonna happen if they have 1M users per day, which is NEVER.

Difficult things and uneasy

Awesome! Yes, totally agree. We've shifted heavily to FinOps and tracking spending, of all kinds. Lean, efficient businesses, not just code, helps businesses survive!