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I think it's less about "give away the ending" and more about construction, and wanting to avoid making a claim just from authority/status. This sounds like a

• abhishekjha 7y ago
  People who design things, how do they make sure that what they are proposing is doable because we won’t know until a group of engineers finish the project and it goes into maintenance?
• microtherion 7y ago
  > I think it's less about "give away the ending" and more about construction, and wanting to avoid making a claim just from authority/status. I agree, but maybe that style of writing has evolved for good reasons? In engineering, it seems to be a common personality trait that when presented with conclusions first, we tend to formulate reasons contradicting the conclusions, and then dig in on those reasons, to the detriment of trying to follow the explanations that follow. In the military, on the other hand (which has been cited as an example of "bottom line first" culture in this thread), people seem more inclined to follow orders. Anecdotally, in my limited time in the military, I had the opportunity of observing both kinds of personalities, and they did NOT mesh gracefully…
  • rgoulter 7y ago
    I really love this blogpost which discusses these two personalities, in the context of "corrections from strangers on Twitter". Some see corrections as "sharing information"; others see making corrections as asserting status/dominance which disrupts social harmony. https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/
    • microtherion 7y ago
      Very insightful, thanks for sharing!