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> This tilts the skill set of the general tech market towards the One True Way making it gospel to a lot of people

That lot of people literally cannot get hired anywhere but startups because everyone else isn't so naive

> things happen downstream of these unmanaged expectations

It sounds like a metric fuckton of people need to retire or get out of the way already if they can't set expectations despite being in the exact position where they should be able to talk to multiple audiences

None of these excuses appease the investors nor the heads-down employees. Shit will have to change sooner rather than later. Many factors will make it so. This is exactly what defines a tech bubble.

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Sure, plenty of incompetence out there, but nobody wakes up thinking they’re doing wrong. They overpromise, they play it safe. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

As Picard says, "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life"

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We have a very different understanding of what it means to make a mistake