It's sort of like optimistic concurrency. Sure, transactions straight-up get killed on a regular basis. But if you make transactions cheap things that are easil

It's sort of like optimistic concurrency. Sure, transactions straight-up get killed on a regular basis. But if you make transactions cheap things that are easily replaceable, then the overall system might still benefit. I think that all you really need to do to translate the principle to business culture is replace the word "transaction" with "someone's career".