Nick Lewis is a long-time Drupal developer who provides some interesting metaphors for how to understand "The Drupal Way" including the developer as a doctor, the Mother Drupal ecosystem, modules as life forms, Asteroids that change everything in Drupal, Drupal Frankensites and Drupal Hell. Nick has an amazing talent for boiling down perennial web development problems into a simple image that can help us gain perspective and better understand the process of building a Drupal web site. Some of the modules that he mentions are the Display Suite and the Skinr module.