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Cognition
Cargo Cult Engineering
Surface Imitation.
The article
If
Copying the practices of successful companies (e.g., "The Spotify Model") without understanding why they worked there, hoping for the same results.
Then
“Do not adopt a tool/process because Google uses it. Adopt it because you have the exact problem Google had at that scale.”
Unless
First Principles Thinking
Source
Richard P. Feynman, Cargo Cult Science (Caltech commencement address, 1974).
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