I started with code, I stayed for building

I learned to code because it was the shortest path to making things. For a while I thought that meant I wanted to be an engineer.

Then I worked on a product used by tens of millions of people and saw how little of its success came from the engineering. It came from understanding people, what they wanted, what they'd trust, what was worth building at all.

I don't think that makes engineering less important. It makes it a tool. The interesting question was never 'can I build this?' It was 'is this worth building, and for whom?'

That's the question I like now. It's why I moved toward product. Same love of making things; better question.