>No one cares about preventing fires from starting. They do care about fighting fires late in the project and looking like a hero. Sometimes you just need to let things burn.

As a Californian, I hate this mentality so much. Why can't we just have a smooth release with minimal drama because we planned well? Maybe we could properly fix some tech debt or even polish up some features if we're not spending the last 2 months crunching on some showstopper that was pointed out a year ago.