--- name: Forced Reduction: Rubin vs.
This is the deletion concept in its most compressed form. The point is not that engineers are bad at their jobs — it's that they apply the wrong move (optimize) to a stale object (something that should have been deleted).
" The forced overshoot in Rubin's version is specifically designed to defeat this — by going past the line, you force yourself to confront that the thing you love isn't essential. The Musk cull is faster but lets you keep the self-deception if you don't go all the way.
" But the thing you learn along the way is different. Musk's frame teaches you what's necessary.
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