My engineering partner and I have been developing this new aircraft control system for eighteen months and we both know the current design has a fundamental flaw that would require starting over, but neither of us wants to be the one to say it because we're both terrified of losing our funding. We keep making incremental changes that don't address the core issue and I can see us heading toward a demo that's going to fail spectacularly.
More people experience this than they realize.
You both know the design is broken, but neither of you will admit it for fear of losing the money.
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