Congratulations to Linus; that's courageous, and posting is wonderful leadership for the Linux community and the IT community in general - many other leaders co

Congratulations to Linus; that's courageous, and posting is wonderful leadership for the Linux community and the IT community in general - many other leaders could take the hint. A major challenge of top-level leadership is you have no boss, nobody setting high standards and helping you (including pushing you in a healthy way) to achieve them. Linus' job is leadership but his work product has had these major flaws. If someone subordinate to him turned in such flawed work, Linus would have let them know and wouldn't have accepted the patch. Linus and all leaders need to be equally demanding of the their own work product: it should be up to the highest standards of Linux kernel contributions - in design, implementation, quality, and effectiveness; in the effect on the component and in the ripple effects on the rest of the system; in its immediate impact and in its long-term 'technical'/organizational debt. Does that seem like a lot to take into account? Why should your engineers' work product have highers standards than yours? The heart of the issue, IMHO, is how to do it. How can a human being, with all the limits we have, realistically maintain that focus and motivation on a day-to-day basis without someone else helping them?