“Don’t do this,” I said to the director. “Once you have this information, you’ll have to do something about it.”
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No, she was a fine and energetic professional. She had simply done something I’d seen too many times before: she had succumbed to the fever of the system. As a product manager once told me, “I’ve never seen anyone with two systems who didn’t want us to hook them together.”
– Ellen Uhlmann, Close to the Machine