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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
You Never Do It Right the First Time
There's a corollary to this, the hiding hand principle.Which says the actual outcome of a project is often very different from the projected outcome. The original essay by Albert O. Hirschman looks at unexpectedly good results, the more recent study linked to here says they occur only in a minority of cases, mostly it's poorer results.
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