[Shorel]

To me is the other way around.

The article assumes that we don't know when any particular piece of knowledge will experiment decay and we can't know until after the fact, just as it would happen with a particular atom in the physics half-life.

The lesson is of course to never assume any current practice is the end-of-all-arguments that never should be contested. Have an open mind for everything.

[jackaltman]

this is exactly the point -- startup best-practices change much more rapidly than best-practices for something like bridge construction.