hyperbole

I like the utilitarian aspect, but I'm fairly certain if you put my samsung frige in a wind tunnel next to that truck my fridge would exhibit less drag.

If you're going to use batteries your range is going to be limited if you're driving a brick -- more attention to aerodynamics would pay dividends in mpe and overall cost -- fewer batteries required to go the same distance...

I find it hard to believe the common case for the 1% of the 1% always succeed because of sheer luck, brillance (although those things certainly can help).

The 1% of the 1% succeed because they are driven to find success, because they are relentlessly applying logic to the problems they face, because of determination - because they don't give up. I think the term thrown around these days is grit.

So yes, share what happened before, but more than likely those with 'grit' are going to figure out what has been tried before on their own and sometimes they'll reapply what failed in the past and make it work.

At the end of the day tech is just a collection of tools & for the most part those who use them are digital carpenters, so if you need to build temp scaffolding and a screw driver works better than a hammer, sure use the right tool for the job. Unclear why this is newsworthy but let me wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. If you are operating on borrowed time, let me recommend editing your /etc/hosts and blacklisting hacker news, etc.

One caution since you seem to have fallen into the trap of not experimenting nor venturing out of your comfort zone -- it's a surefire way to learn nothing from this experience including what tools make you more productive...

Good luck

And this is why I miss car talk...

What is your definition of a 'team', is it a 2 pizza scrum team, is it your PD organization? In the real world team members have varying levels of context & product understanding - a tech lead should be the person with a firm enough grasp of a functional area to help make a decision, and that person doesn't always need to be a member of the team, nor is it true that the tech lead needs to make the decision because normally decisions are a collection of trade-offs - and the role should be to guide the team to the correct one, i.e. we were thinking of doing this, response: if you do that did you think of this consequence, or perhaps you should consider doing this instead...

Here in the real world its various shades of gray on most of these points mentioned - if you don't have a lead role what do your junior engineers aspire to be the architect for which you have a handful of - or perhaps they're just looking for a job elsewhere.

> First of all, diabetes pills are not really 'health products.' They are more like 'you fucked up your health, now try not to die' products

You can make the same argument about low cost sugary foods that originated from the same conglomerates - trade lower prices & time to avoid starving... if you can't afford to eat healthy you eat what's fast, affordable and tastes good.

You can have your cake and eat it too, you just won't live very long...

I agree there isn't a 'sickle' marketing department where in the company creates the problem and caters at every stopping point until your ultimate demise - unless of course Nestle owns a collection of funeral homes...

Hanlons razor: never assume bad intentions when assuming stupidity is enough

I strongly disagree - it sometimes is inept individuals in the medical field who cause mishaps, I watched a young clearly inexperienced anesthesiologist attempt to perform a spinal on my wife during labor - he spent an entire hour attempting to insert the needle between the blades of my wife's spinal column before calling for help. Rather than admitting he had either:

a) never done the procedure or b) was unskilled in its application

he attempted to perform it himself, and for reasons unknown thank god he didn't insert the needle into the spine incorrectly. The experienced anesthesiologist took a minute or so to do the same procedure.

So yes, even in the medical field there are inept individuals who think too highly of themselves to admit & seek help when they're clearly incapable of performing the task at hand. Unfortunately those weaknesses cannot always be detected (i.e. diagnosis, etc.) without second opinions - but hey, that's why there's malpractice insurance...

Plane crashes caused by pilots and doctors with medical malpractice incidents cannot be compared. In the event an airline pilot causes a plane to crash - the pilot is committed to the outcome, he's in the plane. There's no equivalent in the medical field - inject the wrong drug in a patient and its a learning experience with possible negative side effects for the patient.