The article is excellent, and the way it suggests to communicate is great. I'm certainly taking notes. As a team lead myself, I've screwed up on this more than my share of times. Within a team, these advises are gold.

At a higher level though, I can't help but feel our industry is taking so long to mature because everyone has to keep making the same mistakes over and over and we don't learn from history.

Conversations often go like:

Engineer A: "I'm going to do XYZ".

Engineer B: "Hmm, we've tried XYZ, it exploded in our face"

Engineer A: "I've had experience with XYZ on my side project/little startup, it works fine!"

Engineer B: "Yeah, it works at first but eventually problems arise and it will blow up"

Engineer A: "Whatever, I'm doing it anyway"

<6 months later>

Engineer A: "See, it worked fine!"

Engineer B points at the beggining of some problems

Engineer A: "That's normal!"

<6 months later>

Engineer B: "Welp, as expected, it all went to hell. Where's Engineer A?"

Engineer C: "Oh, Engineer A got bored and quit/joined another company. Looks like you're inheriting it, Engineer A!"

Repeat...hundreds of times...for everything.