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I think it's healthy to be skeptical of people claiming to be solving a more general problem than the actual problem at hand (which is a large fraction of the a

I think it's healthy to be skeptical of people claiming to be solving a more general problem than the actual problem at hand (which is a large fraction of the advice in this article). Unfortunately, a non-technical manager trying to drill down into an argument about cross-platform, generic, or framework solutions to problems is quickly going to get lost and/or piss off engineers.

xyrnoble 9y ago
Non-technical managers often fail to account for the Inventor's Paradox [1]. They assume more general solutions will necessarily require more resources. This is often not the case even if you ignore the resources which would be allocated to problems (solved in the general case) that you do not yet have. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_paradox