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Apr 2025
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When Idealism Confronts Reality

Victor Menasce
About this episode

On today’s show we are talking about whether it’s better to be better, or better to be simple. Today’s episode is an embarrassing story that I’m going to share with you so that you can learn from our mistake. 

One of the consequences of working with really smart people is that you can often get caught up in the elegance of an ideal solution. 

There is something to be said for consistency. If you want to reduce the possibility of errors, then it makes sense to eliminate or at least reduce the number of choices. Each decision represents an opportunity for error, or for misunderstanding. Today's story was an attempt at driving consistency that had unintended consequences.

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