I once said, in a public argument about a book that advocated for divorce, that if I found my wife reading it we would have a conversation about it. My wife is a surgeon and the family breadwinner; the idea that I could control her is faintly comic to anyone who knows us. None of … Continue reading The Same Paper: On Love, Control & the Limits of the Outside View
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The Functional Migration Problem
You're alone in a quiet room when the concept hits: you've been defending a dead project because of what you already spent, not what you'll gain. The recognition restructures your decision. Three months later someone deploys that same concept in a meeting to diagnose someone else's error. The project continues anyway. A concept like "sunk … Continue reading The Functional Migration Problem
