4 min read // by Daksh Kohli
Why Breaking the Norm is the Only Competitive Moat
Standard procedures exist to protect mediocrity from catastrophic failure. Accept every best practice unquestioned and you guarantee average results.
The illusion of convention
Most engineering dogma is inherited rather than reasoned. We stack abstraction on abstraction until a simple CRUD operation needs ten services.
Tactical deviation
Bending the rules isn't negligence, it is calculated optimization. Know the system deeper than the people who wrote the guidelines and the rules become suggestions.