> "If you don’t take a position, you’re tacitly endorsing the decision that eventually gets made" This is important in a lot of situations, not just engineerin

> "If you don’t take a position, you’re tacitly endorsing the decision that eventually gets made" This is important in a lot of situations, not just engineering. Variants of cut-and-choose can be useful here. If you flip a coin to make the decision for you, do you object to its outcome? If so, you've picked the other one. It's also worth having a discussing about responsibility, power, and accountability here. Conventional management structures are supposed to align this, but that rarely corresponds to reality.