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I'd agree with you, if I hadn't worked adjacent to the financial industry for a bit. There are a lot of companies with liberty in the name (not even just US bas
by codezero 6y ago
I'd agree with you, if I hadn't worked adjacent to the financial industry for a bit. There are a lot of companies with liberty in the name (not even just US based), and I've mixed some up, even on technical issues.
Obviously the "name" isn't the issue, or maybe it is, it's possible they worked with this person in the past, and it never occurred to them to check the current employer, because it usually doesn't change that much, but once you end up working with customers in an emergent industry (separate experience in analytics, yes the past two decades is emergent), you'll find you have a customer who after a few quarters is on to a new job, but still your customer!
There are so many ways for these wires to get crossed, I'll stick to Hanlon's razor, but modify it to not be about malice, but to be about confusion:
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by confusion.
And if there's any chance I get something named after me, since this pattern is cute, let's call Clover's razor, any aphorism that takes on the form "Never attribute to X that which can adequately be explained by Y."
:)
- codezero 6y agoFun historical fact, it's from this aphorism that the proverb "measure twice cut once" comes from, because confusion can be supplanted by repetition.
- WalterBright 6y agoMy rule is "measure three times, then cut the wrong side off."
- ineedasername 6y agoYep, done that all too many times.
- hef19898 6y agoJust happened yesterday.
- codezero 6y agoI’ve ribbed colleagues with the measure twice cut once line after screw ups, and I shared this very good retort with them and they appreciated it :)
- dantiberian 6y agoI could imagine that after Levandowski left Waymo that his email was forwarded to a manager or peer. You could see how a supplier could accidentally pick corey@waymo.com instead of corey@uber.com when they type “Corey” into the email client.
- codezero 6y agoYep, especially since Gmail also truncates signatures aggressively. They almost make it difficult to know if a person is representing an org, and instead just show what ever name they've decided is most appropriate :)
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- justinclift 6y ago"Never attribute to Clover's razor that which can adequately be explained by Hanlon's razor."? :)
- codezero 6y agoMaybe that’d be called a Hanlon’s Clover?
- kbenson 6y ago> Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by confusion. That's a new favorite of mine. I think I'll need to append it to Hanlon's razor any time I use it: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, and never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by confusion."
- codezero 6y agoThere’s a recursion joke waiting to happen here.