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Their wordsmost rewrites fail and most people are over-optimistic about how long they will take
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Mental modelBottlenecks
Their wordsPeople who can be trusted to make something inevitable are really rare, and are typically the bottleneck for how many different things a team or company can do at once.
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Different people's areas of strongest judgment or taste rarely overlap much with each other.
Their wordsit's quite rare for different people's "zone of best taste" to overlap very much.
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