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- URL: https://x.com/mike_acton/status/1804252317677764943
- Author: Mike Acton (@mike_acton)
- Posted: 2024-06-21 20:37:28
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1/ @mike_acton
The biggest flaw in most systems’ designs is the belief that it’s possible to design a system free of flaws. Which leads to the irrational behavior of focusing on protecting the system instead of focusing on solving whatever the problem at hand was that challenged it.
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2/ @christianboutin
@mike_acton
The two end results often are:
- It takes forever to do the simplest thing.
- Whatever comes later will be the use-case your “protections” didn’t account for and you’ll have to start over. Again.