A fun thing about being in a cloud sales org at MS was getting a front row seat to lots of stories like this The company would often be renowned for having great business practices, w/many books written on how to run your business like theirs b/c that would make you successfulhttps://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1122243831615741952 …
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There are a lot of infamous stories about this kind of thing (e.g., re-writing a working chat app on top of the wrong database so that it could no longer reliably send messages), but the thing I think is often missed is that "good" decisions are often made for similar reasons.
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Like when there are two competing proposals, both eminently reasonable, and some VP has to decide which one to pick. They don't have the time to really evaluate the proposals (no one does), so they pick the person they trust. Why should anyone copy the outcome of this process?
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also, often projects can succeed in spite of many bad choices
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when we pattern match on tiny sets of anecdotes we make terrible investments: imagine only looking at Tour de France winners and making decisions like "we should get cancer because cancer correlates strongly with winning!"
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