Friday, March 8, 2013

Engineers and pizzas

How do 6 engineers select toppings for 3 pizzas?
They find all the ingredients everyone likes, then select variations of those for each.

Why? Because engineers love to "solve the problem perfectly", and what can be more perfect than everyone liking every pizza? Then the 24 slices can be split in any proportion, everyone has options, and so on.

In reality this approach just guarantees that no one is unhappy. Likely it means that people's favorite ingredients are left off. And now you know why Microsoft Office is ... so ... just there.

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