> Is the author expect to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him? Not really. If I wanted to convince skeptics, I would have to make it much longer

> Is the author expect to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him? Not really. If I wanted to convince skeptics, I would have to make it much longer and more precise, and then it be a very different kind of thing. Maybe I'll do that some other day. The connections between the sections are fairly obscure, I admit. But I think many "universal truths of software development" are instances of more general problems to do with collective decision-making and local optimisation processes, which also produce the problems the last section mentions. I don't have a solution, but in the meantime I'd like to avoid making things worse.