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    • scottalanmillerS
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      Youtube Video

      It's a common logical progression to use old mistakes or poor decisions as the basis for making more bad decisions. This can result in a dangerous effect of not just creating a ripple effect, but it also reinforces to people in business that creating intentionally bad decisions can allow them to bypass controls that should be in their way.

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        Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

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        • coliverC
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          @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

          Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

          Is that true? Is this the hindsight is 20/20 argument? I don't see that as the case in a lot of bad decisions I've seen made (or made myself) I knew the risks and that there was a potential better solution but decided, "f*** it let's do it anyway."

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          • pmonchoP
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            @coliver said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

            @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

            Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

            Is that true? Is this the hindsight is 20/20 argument? I don't see that as the case in a lot of bad decisions I've seen made (or made myself) I knew the risks and that there was a potential better solution but decided, "f*** it let's do it anyway."

            I do believe so, sometimes. Many times I agree with you and the "f*** it let's do it anyway."

            Most of the bad decisions made with the F'it attitude are done by using our gut. That makes the decision more emotional than logical. Boy do I get myself in trouble with "gut" decisions. LOL

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            • DustinB3403D
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              @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

              Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

              Then it clearly wasn't the best decision at the time.

              If you are evaluating a system today, and it does everything you could ever need and then some. It cost a nominal amount of money to implement compared to the competition and you go with that solution.

              That isn't a bad decision.

              In 3 years there could be a way better system that exist and costs even less and offers more. But you needed a system 3 years ago not 3 years in the future.

              You picked the best solution for the organization that was available at the time.

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              • pmonchoP
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                @dustinb3403 said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

                Then it clearly wasn't the best decision at the time.

                If you are evaluating a system today, and it does everything you could ever need and then some. It cost a nominal amount of money to implement compared to the competition and you go with that solution.

                That isn't a bad decision.

                In 3 years there could be a way better system that exist and costs even less and offers more. But you needed a system 3 years ago not 3 years in the future.

                You picked the best solution for the organization that was available at the time.

                "At the time" is the key phrase. A boss could say, "Why didn't you look to the future and only see the present? You wasted my money because you didn't look out far enough" That then makes it a bad decision even though it could have been the best smart logical decision ever.

                I'm not saying its right, just that the boss could say it.

                I am in agreement that we do our best to make the best decision based on info we have at the time. That still opens the door to a previously best decision becoming a bad decision.

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                • DustinB3403D
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                  @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                  @dustinb3403 said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                  @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                  Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

                  Then it clearly wasn't the best decision at the time.

                  If you are evaluating a system today, and it does everything you could ever need and then some. It cost a nominal amount of money to implement compared to the competition and you go with that solution.

                  That isn't a bad decision.

                  In 3 years there could be a way better system that exist and costs even less and offers more. But you needed a system 3 years ago not 3 years in the future.

                  You picked the best solution for the organization that was available at the time.

                  "At the time" is the key phrase. A boss could say, "Why didn't you look to the future and only see the present? You wasted my money because you didn't look out far enough" That then makes it a bad decision even though it could have been the best smart logical decision ever.

                  I'm not saying its right, just that the boss could say it.

                  I am in agreement that we do our best to make the best decision based on info we have at the time. That still opens the door to a previously best decision becoming a bad decision.

                  You'd respond with "If I could look into the future I'd go and buy a lottery ticket!"

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                  • pmonchoP
                    pmoncho @DustinB3403
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                    @dustinb3403 said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                    @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                    @dustinb3403 said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                    @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                    Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

                    Then it clearly wasn't the best decision at the time.

                    If you are evaluating a system today, and it does everything you could ever need and then some. It cost a nominal amount of money to implement compared to the competition and you go with that solution.

                    That isn't a bad decision.

                    In 3 years there could be a way better system that exist and costs even less and offers more. But you needed a system 3 years ago not 3 years in the future.

                    You picked the best solution for the organization that was available at the time.

                    "At the time" is the key phrase. A boss could say, "Why didn't you look to the future and only see the present? You wasted my money because you didn't look out far enough" That then makes it a bad decision even though it could have been the best smart logical decision ever.

                    I'm not saying its right, just that the boss could say it.

                    I am in agreement that we do our best to make the best decision based on info we have at the time. That still opens the door to a previously best decision becoming a bad decision.

                    You'd respond with "If I could look into the future I'd go and buy a lottery ticket!"

                    True dat! Then we wouldn't need a boss. 🙂

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                      Obsolesce @DustinB3403
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                      @dustinb3403 said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                      @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                      @dustinb3403 said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                      @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                      Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

                      Then it clearly wasn't the best decision at the time.

                      If you are evaluating a system today, and it does everything you could ever need and then some. It cost a nominal amount of money to implement compared to the competition and you go with that solution.

                      That isn't a bad decision.

                      In 3 years there could be a way better system that exist and costs even less and offers more. But you needed a system 3 years ago not 3 years in the future.

                      You picked the best solution for the organization that was available at the time.

                      "At the time" is the key phrase. A boss could say, "Why didn't you look to the future and only see the present? You wasted my money because you didn't look out far enough" That then makes it a bad decision even though it could have been the best smart logical decision ever.

                      I'm not saying its right, just that the boss could say it.

                      I am in agreement that we do our best to make the best decision based on info we have at the time. That still opens the door to a previously best decision becoming a bad decision.

                      You'd respond with "If I could look into the future I'd go and buy a lottery ticket!"

                      You usually waste a lot of money by building for too far out in the future. You should ideally build for what you need now, but something that is scalable.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @pmoncho
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                        @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                        Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

                        This is true, sort of. But it doesn't mean that the old decision was bad. This is something that plagues a lot of people in IT, I've seen, like when we talk about RAID 5. At the time, with the options at the time, RAID 5 was a good choice. Then, factors changed and today it is not a good choice. That it is not a good choice today has no effect on if it was a good choice then. But a lot of people feel badly about having made that good choice in the past because it wouldn't continue to be a good choice today - which makes no sense. That's like thinking the Romans were stupid for using paper instead of computers.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @pmoncho
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                          @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                          @coliver said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                          @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                          Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

                          Is that true? Is this the hindsight is 20/20 argument? I don't see that as the case in a lot of bad decisions I've seen made (or made myself) I knew the risks and that there was a potential better solution but decided, "f*** it let's do it anyway."

                          I do believe so, sometimes. Many times I agree with you and the "f*** it let's do it anyway."

                          Most of the bad decisions made with the F'it attitude are done by using our gut. That makes the decision more emotional than logical. Boy do I get myself in trouble with "gut" decisions. LOL

                          I guess in that case, it's more that it was always a bad decision and decision process, not that it was good and became bad only later.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @pmoncho
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                            @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                            @dustinb3403 said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                            @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video:

                            Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow.

                            Then it clearly wasn't the best decision at the time.

                            If you are evaluating a system today, and it does everything you could ever need and then some. It cost a nominal amount of money to implement compared to the competition and you go with that solution.

                            That isn't a bad decision.

                            In 3 years there could be a way better system that exist and costs even less and offers more. But you needed a system 3 years ago not 3 years in the future.

                            You picked the best solution for the organization that was available at the time.

                            "At the time" is the key phrase. A boss could say, "Why didn't you look to the future and only see the present? You wasted my money because you didn't look out far enough" That then makes it a bad decision even though it could have been the best smart logical decision ever.

                            I'm not saying its right, just that the boss could say it.

                            I am in agreement that we do our best to make the best decision based on info we have at the time. That still opens the door to a previously best decision becoming a bad decision.

                            That's just the boss making a different bad decision now 🙂

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