I agree that a few points seem 'matter of fact' at face value. What's weird is that IMO even people that would see this to be obvious, sometimes behave counter

I agree that a few points seem 'matter of fact' at face value. What's weird is that IMO even people that would see this to be obvious, sometimes behave counter to it. For example, I've seen good teams release things that pretty much anyone could classify as 'broken' from the outset, but they do it anyway because there's an overarching 'hustle obsession' and aphorisms like "ship to learn" make it easy to justify that. It's probably a mix of flawed incentives, company culture (glorification of failure?), and so on, but my point there is that in the weeds, it can be hard to put even the simplest rules in practice, with nuance. I totally agree re books, blogs, tweets. Categorical statements are easier to remember and digest, nuance is kind of boring to talk about (read: politics atm, or always?). Maybe it's something about human psychology that we are collectively drawn to the simpler, discrete answers because they feel more comforting and approachable.