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I do feel like "do the thing you did before, but fix the glaring mistakes you made before in hindsight" has some appeal.



Isn’t that one of the problems the article is getting at though?

Someone who has done “it” in another environment will have scar tissue formed from issues they ran into doing “it” there.

When you hire them to do “it” here, they will avoid things that didn’t work there and try to do things that did - but here is not there and maybe the situation aligns differently and what didn’t work there would work here.

Like, maybe they ran into an issue with doing “it” using approach A because it required a more skilled operations team than they had there. But maybe here you have a better ops team and approach A would be much easier.




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