> I don’t recall the author now, but the gist of the argument made was that we’re too protective of our code - if you give someone responsibility, show that you trust them, more often than not, your intuition about people abusing their freedom is way off.

Maybe it was some of Pieter Hintjens writing and/or the C4 process:

* https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:42/C4/

* http://hintjens.com/blog:112

* http://hintjens.com/blog:106

Edit: oh, as the author mentions a blog post from 2012, it probably isn't any of the above posts (which are newer) but maybe something related to C4.