Wayback Wednesday: He’s really good at worst-case scenarios

Flashback to 1994: This pilot fish works at a company that does military projects, and his program manager comes back from an IT conference with a nifty new gadget.

“It's a thing that punches a hole in the corner of a double-density floppy disk so you can format it as high-density,” says fish. “The program manager crows about how much money we can save using it — about 10 cents per disk — and makes a big presentation at the quarterly review for the executive VP.

“I casually ask if he understands the difference in how the disks are manufactured, using the analogy about raking sand versus raking gravel. He snarkily replies that it doesn’t matter because the cost benefits outweigh that.

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