There's an Oxford professor, Bent Flyvbjerg (bonus points for knowing how to pronounce this) who's devoted his career to analyzing very large projects and why t

There's an Oxford professor, Bent Flyvbjerg (bonus points for knowing how to pronounce this) who's devoted his career to analyzing very large projects and why they're so terrible. The problems are not limited to transit, and they extend to big software projects and big construction as well. (Spoiler: they're inherent in the organization of bigness.) https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/optimism-hubris-and-strategic-misrepresentation https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/optimism-hubris-and-stra... Willie Brown (former mayor of SF and state legislative leader), when he was safely out of office, said the quiet part out loud: the initial estimates are just to sell the project. No one on the inside takes them seriously.