$1.5 million quote goes unfinished thanks to a bad office internet connection and rigid remote work policy: 'Ah, well. If only I could go home to use my working internet'

When you etch something into stone, you ensure its fastness and reliability, but the stability and security might feel reassuring, but the structure you've built is doomed to its own rigidity and inability to adapt to change and unanticipated circumstances. After all, stone too can crumble under enough force and pressure.

Of course, this is the same when you're building a building as it is working in that building. Strictness for strictness's sake is always going to end up being self-defeating. Flexibility begets flexibility and flexibility breeds creativity and creative solutions to process problems.

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