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It's "cool" to move fast, break things. It's less cool to tread carefully and do due diligence. People love to use folksy stories to justify the former (the on
by brianmcc 6y ago
It's "cool" to move fast, break things. It's less cool to tread carefully and do due diligence.
People love to use folksy stories to justify the former (the one about the monkeys for example - https://workingoutloud.com/blog/the-five-monkeys-experiment-with-a-new-lesson https://workingoutloud.com/blog/the-five-monkeys-experiment-...).
I really like Chesterton's Fence as a counter-story to it, not to stop meaningful change from actually happening but to neutralize decision-by-best-folksy-story from over-ruling other options unchallenged, and allowing case-by-case thinking to prevail.