<story><title>Do something, so we can change it</title><url>https://allenpike.com/2023/do-something-so-we-can-change-it</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>echohack5</author><text>I want to agree with this post, but I don&amp;#x27;t. This person is in a position of power over their product.&lt;p&gt;Instead, I have found that decisions work by &amp;quot;path dependency&amp;quot;. If something works, even if it is a poor implementation, the path to get there is holy ground and the amount of effort to change a 10 minute decision that was made flippintly by two business people chatting in the urinals on a Wednesday is like trying to siege the walls of Jehrico.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no solving this problem because it is fundamentally human in nature. The egos are invested in the existing thing -- so improving the proof-of-concept-that-is-now-hastily-shoved-into-production problem requires that you unravel every person&amp;#x27;s thoughts and pride on the current thing, regardless of the seriousness of the problem. And so the problem cannot get solved and change cannot happen unless something catastrophic occurs.&lt;p&gt;Thus, the line-worker software engineer, who has no real organizational power, has to hope that the proverbial printer falls down a flight of stairs &amp;quot;accidentally&amp;quot; so that they can swap out the black ink cartridge to a new one that doesn&amp;#x27;t make weird bleed lines on the edge of every page. That way, when the new printer comes in, and someone complains that the ink bleed is gone and how they liked that, that you can feign ignorance.</text></comment>
<story><title>Do something, so we can change it</title><url>https://allenpike.com/2023/do-something-so-we-can-change-it</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daniel_reetz</author><text>&amp;quot;Action produces information&amp;quot;. If you &amp;quot;do something, so we can change it&amp;quot; be sure to do it strongly in one direction or the other, so that you set the direction of exploration, too.</text></comment>