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I read an article about business which had this classification, "Would be weird if it worked", "Might work", and "Would be weird if it didn't work" and argued that you want to be in the last category.

In engineering we aspire to a slightly stronger standard: "I made it physically impossible to fuck this up."




Yeah I don't think they were aspiring to that




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