Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost · Erik Bernhardsson

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People aren't incompetent or lazy, just busy doing other things.

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost 2020-03-10 Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way. Instead, the root cause is probably just that they didn't have time yet . This happens all the time at startups (maybe a bit less at big companies, for reasons I'll get back to). Some examples of things I hear all the time: I

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost · Erik Bernhardsson

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