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One-Way-Door and Two-Way-Door Decisions

See also the "Linux kernel management style" document that's been in the kernel since forever: https://docs.kernel.org/6.1/process/management-style.html

I really like the avoidance (elimination) of one-way-door decisions by turning them into several small(er) two-way-door decisions. I guess the software development interpretation of it is clearly defined boundaries of responsibility, and avoiding to leak implementation details beyond those?

Most people are idiots, and being a manager means you’ll have to deal with it, and perhaps more importantly, that they have to deal with you.
It turns out that while it’s easy to undo technical mistakes, it’s not as easy to undo personality disorders. You just have to live with theirs - and yours.

this was definitely written by Linus XD

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