Overall good piece about how to make quality software. That being said the whole section about "Hire the Best Engineers You Can" should be read with caution... it clearly starts from the "10x coder" fallacy, it's not true and suddenly completely ignores the project context.

Good exploration of what "engineer" and "engineering" means. Also helps to overcome what software people like us assume is done by the "real engineers" while in fact sometimes they can be as sloppy than us.