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One of the most foundational insights I’ve ever had in IT is clients don’t know what they want until you shove it in their face. And only then do they say no, no, no, change this, this and that.

Same story as building a house. There’s so many unknowns.

The track you chose has always had the same risk, you did it anyway even with all that technology beforehand. Congrats, you are the example I’m referring to.

Exactly what I was talking about.

I’m all for expanding internet coverage, but people have a false sense of security because they have signal bars on their phone.

Not talking about day to day living. Talking about activities like hiking, mountain climbing etc and people perception of safety because they have a phone signal.

I’m not sure regular internet access is changing the risk like you say, but I agree that people like connectivity and hence will do more risky things because they think it’s safer.

Rescues even with EPIRB’s can still be difficult.

The only thing the people in charge care about is this: is their equity going up? Nothing else matters like results or revenue. Quaint concept those.

Headlines is what matters at the executive and board level. Start measuring things and they might not be able to spin a story to sell.

For a large part of society we have management in leadership positions.

They banned exporting bad cryptography algorithms/code 30 years ago too.

People just love to talk about anything that tickling their fancies.

It’s all a fugazi.