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by ctrw 852 days ago
The easier solution to is remove them.
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Sure, and the best optimization of any bottleneck is to cut the feature, doing nothing is O(1) after all.

As you can imagine, it's a solution that kills the product (or the company) in the long term.

A company is like a rose bush, keeping it civilised means constant aggressive prunning.
Surely the bush itself cannot be responsible for its own pruning, that would be a conflict of interest. Anyway, it's always best to start pruning at the top.
What if the top's singing "Feed Me, Seymour!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHrzZUascE

At the tips actually.
It's always easier to assume that the fault lies with the listener rather than the speaker. That doesn't mean it's the most effective bias to hold.
If the speaker can convince the listener they should find a job where they don't need to speak as part of the job description. Dishwashers and janitors give pletnly of job stability for people like those.
I was too abstract. I meant that when a message is misunderstood by a large enough chunk of the audience it's the speaker's fault for not knowing their audience and their needs.

To be clear, you demonstrated the bias I was referring to by casting doubt on the intelligence or job-worthiness of the listeners rather than recognizing what I said about effectiveness being improved if you can get your message to more people.