Brian Ratliff

Jeff Bezos reveals why compromise is one of the worst ways to resolve a disagreement "An example of a really bad way of coming to agreement is compromise. If I say the ceiling is 11 feet and you say 12 feet, we say let's call it 11 and a half. That's compromise" "The advantage of compromise is it's low energy. But it doesn't lead to truth" "Another really bad resolution mechanism is who's more stubborn. Two executives disagree, they have a war of attrition, and whichever one gets exhausted first capitulates. You haven't arrived at truth, and this is very demoralizing" "Escalation is better than a war of attrition. Escalate to your boss and say, we can't agree, we like each other, we're respectful, but we strongly disagree, we need you to make a decision" "Exhausting the other person is not truth seeking. Compromise is not truth seeking"

What do you guys think, should I add colors to my homebrewed CAD viewer? I feel like my profile might be looking a bit monochrome. On one hand, basically every CAD design I've done in my career has been in this particular shade of gray. At some point it's tradition. I've built literally thousands of CAD parts--I've just never really cared about colors unless it's interfering with viewing the part. And sometimes, I'll admit, lots of colors seems a bit gaudy and not very useful except for presentation. On the other hand, it seems all the new AI-CAD floating around has been splashed with color. Is this the trend now? Cool thing about building your own AI-native viewer is you get to add the exact features you want. And only those features you need.

Dancing Bear is a good analogy I found for AI outputs. Suppose there's a circus and people go there to see The Dancing Bear. People don't go because the dance is good. It isn't. It may actually be kind of terrible. What matters is that the bear dances at all.