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I'm a fan of the innovation token idea. You have n (where n is based on your team size) innovation tokens to make use of. They can be applied to your product, the technology used to build the product, or the infrastructure supporting the product.

Why is there a limit? Because budgets are limited, and products need to be completed.

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I totally agree. I felt like the author understood this but wrote in a style to be provocative. I didn't catch much in the article that was actually disagreeing with rolling out new technologies gradually.

For example, something like `What about a PostgreSQL operation rewriting SQL stored procedures in PL/Python?` is both provocative (there are good reasons not to thoughtlessly move all your stored procedures to PL/Python) but it's also absolutely a feature of Postgres a company should investigate and understand.

Yup.

And unless the project is something that nobody’s ever succeeded at in the past due to technical limitations, businesses tend to survive and thrive if they spend their innovation tokens on product instead of tech/infrastructure.

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