wrote:
Do you know how many custom screws we crank

out on the old Brown and Sharpe screw machines? Custom screws. There

Then out in the field the new guy looses the screw in the dirt, and
because:

a bolt from the hardware store won't fit the threads


Which is the reason the manager instructed the engineer to custom design
a screw in the first place?



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This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against
instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make
mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their
decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."