Good programmers are lazy
Paul Duvall has an interesting post about rewarding your lazy programmers – the ones that write good interfaces, abstractions and easy to support code. They are good programmers because they are so lazy they don't want to have to support the code or help others figure it out so they write their code well the first time. This idea meshes really well with my favorite management rule: give anything really tedious and repetitious (i.e. automate-able) to a good programmer. They will automate it for you just so they can move on to something more interesting.
