We are passing through tough times, “The moment everything changed” with COVID-19, quarantine, people trying adapt their day to day, companies not prepared to work remotely… On top of that, one thing that I have seen is a lack of science in different aspects. Lots of assumptions, lack of data and a complete chaos.

In engineering, one thing that we don’t want is chaos — WHAT?! But what about chaos mindset, chaos engineering? — don’t get me wrong, as engineers , we accept chaos and live with it, but build stable and resilient systems on top of it.

According to wikipedia, “Scientists study things by looking at them very carefully, by measuring them, and by doing experiments and tests. Scientists try to explain why things act the way they do, and predict what will happen” and also “Science uses mathematics and logic, which are sometimes called ‘formal sciences’.”, “ Science produces accurate facts, scientific laws and theories”. And as you well know, against facts there are no arguments.
Science is about exploring, experimentation, discovery and, of course, data. Please, data. Let’s base our propositions, our argues and discussions on concrete things…

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