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It’s much easier to make something happen when there’s already somebody who’s thinking about it and passionate about it, even considering the downside that is “it’s not exactly how I wanted it.” I’d also like to think it creates a workplace that engineers want to be in.

Hickey drew a distinction between the concepts of simple and easy . Simple is the opposite of complex, where easy is something that’s familiar to us: the term he used to describe the concept of easy that I really liked was at hand .

One of the most consistent observations I’ve had in my time in startups, scale-ups, and public companies is that smart people with context on a tricky situation almost always know exactly what they need to do.

Teams obsess about company strategy, about data, and about frameworks for decision-making. But I’ve found that for most operational decisions