complex vs urgent

• It’s our focus on customers that holds us back.
  
• The most innovative companies aren’t just satisfying their existing customers.
  At smaller scales, huge number of inventions are no longer driven by their original intent.
  All of these have something in common: they repurposed something they already had.
  This is exaptation; the re-use of things for purposes for which they were not designed or evolved.
  This is what Dave calls “Managing for Serendipity”.
  

Siempre suele haber un aspecto en el que esa persona se explaya y elige concentrarse en ese y hace un trabajo sincero/honesto, porque si no es un rollo, o esa persona es cínica

https://simpleprogrammer.com/principles-are-timeless-best-practices-are-fads/
Best practices are subjective and depend largely on context, while principles are eternal and universal.
Rather than get trapped into the argument of when unit testing loses its value, it is better to address when it has the highest value—we are much more likely to agree there.
If you were to blindly follow any best practice and not apply that best practice in a way that brings out the underlying principle, you would be very unlikely to actually receive any benefit.
most best practices are actually derived from universally applicable principles that never change. That is why most best practices are good.
It’s not the best practice that is effective, it is the principle behind the best practice