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> Your best design efforts will inevitably wind up being useless in the final design. Learn to live with the disappointment.

Sounds like Software Architecture to me.

> At the start of any design effort, the person who most wants to be team leader is least likely to be capable of it.

This might be true for any organization.

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>This might be true for any organization.

Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

Or the Peter Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

And product management. The cheery slogan there is 70 percent of what you do will fail, the remaining 30 percent will need at least 3 or 4 goes before you get it right.

An actually cheery way of putting that is "30 percent of your hypotheses will be validated, after some amount of refinement" ;)

Oh I like that. Sounds much better!

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