Never Attribute to Stupidity That Which Is Adequately Explained by Opportunity Cost
4th May 2020
Some examples of things I hear all the time:
- I don’t understand why team X isn’t working on feature idea Y. It’s such an obvious thing to do!
- Why is bug Z still present? Hasn’t it been known for a really long time? I don’t understand why they aren’t fixing it?
- I don’t get why HR team still doesn’t offer perk W. So many other companies have that!
- I’ve told my manager that we need a process for thing V but it still hasn’t happened!
Of course, why these things never happened is that something else was more important.