[teaearlgraycold]

Thankfully there do exist situations closer to reality. When at an early stage startup it's either fast or die.

Although I also like to remind my co-workers that what you're doing is way more important than just going fast.

[jrumbut]

The institutional preservation instinct can cause perverse incentives but it is useful and allows large organizations to be trusted to do things that can't be addressed by startups.

If you have work that requires something to exist in more or less its present form for years or decades at a time it would be a disaster if one of your key vendors pivoted or went bankrupt halfway through.