Just Break It

Thousands of files, and the instinct is to walk every one before you move anything. We did not. The call was: just break it. All of it is going to break, and you can fix it really fast, so the analysis that avoids the breakage costs more than the breakage does. Several days in, nobody else on the team has told me they felt it. That is the bet, said out loud so you can watch whether it holds.