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don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
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Are you intentionally using "counterfactual" here to distinguish from hypothetical? I'd say there are very few things for which hypothetical X isn't far better than actual X. Fundamentally, details matter far more that we think, most of the failure is in the details, and we routinely ignore details in far-mode thinking about what could be.
Code you haven't written yet is efficient, understandable, and bug-free. Systems of governance are free of corruption and petty dominance games. Your next team will have perfect management that understands the cost of impossible deadlines. Ok, even I can't believe the last one. But the others are pretty common false beliefs.
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.