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Sometimes in the corporate life, you imagine that X would like to have Y, and you put in a lot of effort to make Y happen. And then X is not even aware that Y took effort, or worse, you misinterpreted, and X is annoyed that Y happened. Better make sure that X really wants Y and asks for it.
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My interpretation of your aphorism: bad news is not forever.
not aging well implies the thing gets worse the older it is. So, a more accurate interpretation would be "bad news gets worse the older it is" Although that seems unlikely to be what was intended.
e.g.
"We got a letter for past-due rent yesterday, and I'm telling you now"
vs.
"We've been getting letters for past-due rent the last few months, and I'm telling you now."
Parkinson's Law of Data: "Data expands to fill the space available for storage" Most frequent use: Justifying quotas on NAS/SAN devices. People retain more stuff when they think a shared drive has 500GB free than they do when they see 2TB free.
It has been my experience that to change anything with an organisation takes a while. First you present your proposed change or new process. No one understands or pay attention. Once you implement and showcase the new process, expect objections as it dawns on people they might have to change how they do things. Don't take offense at the objections (which should have been aired at first meeting but no one was paying attention). Just agree to note them and then a week later present same thing you presented. Now you will find most people have processed the change and might even have tried new process or read the documentation. Now the change begins. It's a process.
"Measure twice, cut once"
This is in some ways depressing, but its always been true for me. Individual actions that are outside the realm of someones common patterns are extremely rare. So if they act in a certain way, expect that going forwards. Be cynical.
Eating the menu isn't the same as eating the meal. (I believe from fritz pearls).
Thinking is hard that's why most people go straight to judgement. (C Jung)
There's nothing more disgusting that a person with tons of resources (money, time, imagination) but who has no taste. (Paraphrase of Goethe)
To eager business leads saying that a software or service is too expensive and we should build it internally instead...
"If you have no backup, you have no data. If you have one backup, you have no backup."