TheOtherDave comments on Hold Off On Proposing Solutions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 15 June 2012 03:18:29PM 7 points [-]

(nods) It's kind of critical in a systems engineering role.

Only vaguely relatedly, one of my favorite lines ever came from my first professional mentor, about a design he was proposing: "It does what you expect, but you have to expect the right things."