What’s an example of a “crucial detail” from your line of work that outsiders might notice but wouldn’t consider significant unless an insider pointed out how/why it was crucial?
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Colonialism is a critical contextual force regarding local business development.
Outsiders see the 'colony', but don't understand the behavioral and emotional implications on business relationships. Specifically the lack of trust that has persisted across generations.
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This feels like a crucial point, but not a crucial detail. A crucial detail in the neighborhood might be “biz dev teams in former colonies that include a local co-lead perform better” or something.
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Not my line of work, but crucial detail for rockets:
Fluids that people regularly interact with speed up when going through a constriction and slow down when there's an opening, but when a compressible fluid reaches supersonic speeds and then expands, it keeps accelerating.
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An interesting consequence is that rocket nozzles are divergent cones. The flow is supersonic as it exits the nozzle neck.
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I'm not in construction, but:
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Today I learned that 2x4 wood planks, the most commonly used size in construction are.. not 2'' x 4''.
How do we build anything!?
howelumber.com/dimensional-lu.
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Bugs are randomly distributed. A bug in UI code leads to bad experiences. But a bug in a data pipeline leads to *bad decisions*. The trick is to set up a completely independent measurement pipeline, fuck your pride, and use them to cross-check each other.
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Example: most bicycle front fork designs are curved so steering column axis intersects point of wheel contact, improving stability. It’s not aesthetics.
Example: Overhead power lines for electric locomotives are zigzagged to even out contact wear on the pantograph
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That sounds like a crucial idea (I agree with it), but not like a crucial *detail*
A crucial detail in that general neighborhood might be, “who you include/exclude from a meeting matters more than the agenda”
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