How Dare You Try New Things

How Dare You Try New Things
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The eternal curse of tech: someone proposes creating a new standard to "solve" the existing mess, and instead of having 14 competing standards, you now have 15. The boardroom stays calm when you say the current chaos is "perfectly fine," but the moment you suggest creating yet another universal solution, everyone loses their minds.

The real kicker? The time spent reinventing the wheel could've been used to just learn one of the existing wheels. But no, YOUR wheel will be different. YOUR wheel will be the one that finally unites everyone. Spoiler: it won't.

Classic reference to the famous XKCD comic about standards proliferation. Because nothing says "I'm a problem solver" quite like adding to the problem you're trying to solve.

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