Learn to Manage Data, Not Crises

摘要

Yes, it was probably insensitive of me to tell a friend who was recovering from heart surgery that operating on a major organ is not only inconvenient and painful, but it's also the crudest, most temporary, most incomplete treatment for any systemic problem. Hey, I was trying to encourage him! My point was that there is always (eventually) a more elegant alternative to radical intervention, even if it's not available to you at the moment you need it. That goes not just for medicine, but for IT as well.