The corollary is that for everyone else working on solving business problems in non-software industries (coincidentally there is a related discussion from today

The corollary is that for everyone else working on solving business problems in non-software industries (coincidentally there is a related discussion from today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20599190) the principles are still perfectly sane. In that kind of environment it doesn't lead to short-term thinking because a long-term business vision can exist independently of how a software solution is implemented. Edit: removed the bit about Google being an exception.