Very little exists within a vacuum, whenever you make an important choice you're choosing a philosophical position. Always understand the angle of the factions

Very little exists within a vacuum, whenever you make an important choice you're choosing a philosophical position. Always understand the angle of the factions you align yourself with, pick accordingly. Things are rarely so cut and dried nowadays that you can easily understand what factions you're aligning yourself with so careful analysis is called for. Who do you work for? What do they do? Why do they do it this way? What are their dependencies, what is the ecosystem that each of these dependencies links into, and so on, and so forth. Also, good way to analyse something from a competitive perspective too, weaknesses become clear. Everything has them, it's just a question of what's important to you.