Hire people for their soft skills. Hard skills can be learned or replaced by AI, but poor soft skills will make your work together a nightmare.

Invest in marketing. Too many products fail because they focus too much on development and not enough on marketing.

Keep code style uniform across all your technologies: use the same indentation, quotes, trailing commas, etc. Exception: maintain casing conventions specific to each technology.

When naming cloud resources (and not only), use prefixes instead of postfixes for environments (e.g., production-web instead of web-production). This reduces mistakes.

1. Our brain prioritizes the first word.
2. With prefixes, you avoid accidental autocompletion errors in the terminal.

Learn design and typography.

Code is art. Write your code as if you’re writing a poem for another person, not just instructions for a machine.