> No one paper cut is the cause of death, but all of them are when you have a thousand. this is a common failure mode of projects unfortunately, and its precis

> No one paper cut is the cause of death, but all of them are when you have a thousand. this is a common failure mode of projects unfortunately, and its precisely because paper-cuts have low signal-to-noise ratio that they are hardly worked on... ironically, sometimes its the reactions to big issues that cause paper-cuts to flourish (aka red-tape, incident mitigation, rushing to deadlines, "temporary" bug fixes piling up etc etc)