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The part on perfectionism is also well worth repeating; pretending to be perfect, and/or bullying others into the same madness is a waste of energy and oxygen that could be better used to move forward.

"Perfectionism and fear of external judice insert a designing bias that will result in poor choices in order to refine a design only according to psychological or trivially measurable parameters, where things like robustness, simplicity, ability to deliver in time, are often never accounted for."



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