Solved: Why do people still start restaurants if they fail 90% of the time?

🚀 Executive Summary TL;DR: Tech projects frequently fail by prioritizing complex, bleeding-edge solutions over delivering customer value, driven by factors like Resume-Driven Development and underestimating operational complexity. To succeed, teams should embrace pragmatic approaches such as PaaS for rapid validation, “Boring Technology” for stable development, or highly opinionated managed serverless ecosystems for scalable delivery. 🎯 Key Takeaways Tech project failures often stem from Resume-Driven Development (RDD), FAANG Cargo Culting, and underestimating the operational complexity of distributed systems. Pragmatic approaches to shipping product include using Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for rapid validation, “Boring Technology” for stable development, and highly opinionated managed serverless ecosystems for scalable delivery. “Boring Technology” stacks (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Django) offer significant advantages in time-to-production, hiring pool size, cognitive load, and available