Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas

This is an old essay, but anyway, it’s good! It’s Scott Berkun, again, who writes about how and why smart people are so good at defending bad ideas. Applied to software in particular. This sentence from the essay states the problem very well:

Smart people, or at least those whose brains have good first gears, use their speed in thought to overpower others.

I like the expression "those whose brains have good first gears"! ;-)

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