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Right, Bezos & this blog are framing the world as black & white when its really just lots of gray. Many things that you could bucket into "type 2" decisions wh
by steveBK123 4y ago
Right, Bezos & this blog are framing the world as black & white when its really just lots of gray.
Many things that you could bucket into "type 2" decisions which are not one-way doors, effectively are.
For example, orgs that tend to never go back and fix technical debt means everything is a one-way door.
Further, design decisions that require substantial and growing effort once you go through the door .. are effectively one-way doors as well.
Maybe ZIRP era over staffed FAANG could afford to build and rebuilt, have multiple competing redundant systems to see who wins, etc.. but most tech orgs just don't work that way.
- robocat 4y agoYou are framing it as black & white - I think miscategorising the article and Bezos. From the article: Decisions fall somewhere on the continuum from reversible to irreversible. You can tell where a decision lies on this spectrum by asking how much it would cost to undo. The higher the cost to undo, the more irreversible it is. The lower the cost, the more reversible it is. Bezos considers 70% certainty as the cut-off point where it is appropriate to make a decision. That means acting once we have 70% of the required information, instead of waiting longer.