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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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