Tech workers live and breathe the space between mechanism and intent. Policies that are inconsistent with their stated goals offend exactly the same mental hard

Tech workers live and breathe the space between mechanism and intent. Policies that are inconsistent with their stated goals offend exactly the same mental hardware that finds bugs. There's nothing inherently wrong with heavyweight bureaucracy. Roles, ceremonies, witnesses, signatures, tamper-evident seals, 2-man rules, split-knowledge safe combinations... the community loves this stuff. But we don't respect it because it's policy. We respect it because we were following along, trying to break it, trying to do better, and we couldn't.