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Hey. There's a problem you want to solve, and you tried a way of solving it. Now everyone's waving their arms about and yelling at you. Right now, you're going to feel like you should stand by your decision.

That is a mistake.

That is a mistake, even if your solution is the best solution to the problem.

It's a mistake because if you dig in, fight hard, and refuse to surrender - if you entrench - then the solution becomes entrenched. And if all this backlash can't uproot it, well, what possible chance could a better solution have of replacing it?




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