There are a few strawmen in this post. 1. I never said everybody is stupid. The vast majority of people in Big Tech are great, but there ARE stupid people ther

There are a few strawmen in this post. 1. I never said everybody is stupid. The vast majority of people in Big Tech are great, but there ARE stupid people there too. I resent the implication of your first paragraph. 2. Who said anything about yelling or other toxic behaviors? There are options other than "engineer a foolproof system" and "institute a sado-masochistic management strategy". 3. I never advocated for doing things the hardest way possible, I advocated for doing things correctly (to the best of your ability) even when it is difficult to do so. The example given in the article is a team choosing to do a global rollout when the option existed to do a staged rollout. There's myriad technical things you can do to make it easier and faster to do a staged rollout, harder to do a global rollout, reduce the risk of a global rollout, etc. etc. ... but what about instilling a healthy respect for production in your colleagues? That's been conspicuously absent from most postmortems I've sat in on.