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by BraveNewCurency 656 days ago
> One-Way-Door and Two-Way-Door Decisions

See also the "Linux kernel management style" document that's been in the kernel since forever: https://docs.kernel.org/6.1/process/management-style.html

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I really like the avoidance (elimination) of one-way-door decisions by turning them into several small(er) two-way-door decisions. I guess the software development interpretation of it is clearly defined boundaries of responsibility, and avoiding to leak implementation details beyond those?
> Most people are idiots, and being a manager means you’ll have to deal with it, and perhaps more importantly, that they have to deal with you.

> It turns out that while it’s easy to undo technical mistakes, it’s not as easy to undo personality disorders. You just have to live with theirs - and yours.

this was definitely written by Linus XD