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  "content": "American Exceptionalism is the same as Not Invented Here Syndrome.\n\nIt's a pretty straightforward thought. In the United States of America, we\nhave several problems that other countries seem to have solved in the obvious\nway; they solve gun violence with gun control laws; they solve unaffordable\nhealthcare with government funded or run healthcare; they solve homelessness by\nbuilding housing.\n\nIn the US, we are just *so* exceptional, that of course those solutions aren't\nacceptable. So we accept the problems.\n\nSimilarly, tech companies will re-invent the wheel over and over and over again\n– or \"not invented here\" syndrome. Who cares if there's an open source tool\nor a paid offering to solve basic problems that aren't core to your company's\noffering. Those solutions are for everyone else, you need something custom and\nin house. So you accept the problems with maintaining 100 different tools that\nare basically the same as the standard solutions.\n\nIn both cases we look around, see what should be perfectly adequate solutions\nused in many other places, and say \"nah, we're too special for that to work.\"",
  "createdAt": "2022-11-02T00:00:00.000Z",
  "slug": "not-invented-here",
  "tags": [
    "tech"
  ],
  "title": "American Exceptionalism is the same as Not Invented Here"
}