Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s unclear to me how useful it is about leaders, but it’s definitely true about engineers. Good engineers are definitely right, a lot. Bryan Cantrill has a good rant about the Amazon principle here. I agree with Bryan that it’s a bit silly-sounding, and that it’s not the kind of fundamental principle that can guide tough decisions (no problem, just pick the right choice, like a good leader would do!) B...