The famous Bezos reaction to someone trying to remove duplication across teams, was to write
0 < 2 < 1
With the lesson being don’t deduplicate until at least one of the instances is actually successful.
edit: I got the sequence wrong: someone asserted that they should combine duplicative projects, or eliminate one to save costs, asserting “2 < 1” as a shorthand for “two is worse than one”. This is naively true, both for costs and to minimize customer confusion. Bezos added the “0 <” to make the point that there is risk of failure in new projects, and it’s often worth the expense in order to ensure that at least one succeeds.
The famous Bezos reaction to someone trying to remove duplication across teams, was to write
With the lesson being don’t deduplicate until at least one of the instances is actually successful.
edit: I got the sequence wrong: someone asserted that they should combine duplicative projects, or eliminate one to save costs, asserting “2 < 1” as a shorthand for “two is worse than one”. This is naively true, both for costs and to minimize customer confusion. Bezos added the “0 <” to make the point that there is risk of failure in new projects, and it’s often worth the expense in order to ensure that at least one succeeds.