Smart people optimize because it feels productive

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Capable engineers and operators gravitate toward making things better because improvement is visible, measurable, and socially rewarded — whereas questioning whether the thing should exist is uncomfortable and often career-risky. This bias is why the smartest teams can spend months polishing a system that should have been deleted.

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