What Brendan Gregg thinks about behavioural science

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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21 Nov 2025

Our readingGiving a vendor brutally honest feedback helps the vendor and the customer's own company more than polite praise given out of fear

Their wordsIt isn't easy dealing with peer pressure and a room of warm and friendly staff begging you say something, anything nice about their terrible product for fear of losing their jobs -- and realizing you must be brutal to their faces otherwise you're not helping the vendor or your own company.

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