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💃 Salesforce Professionals and Chesterton's Fence🕺
The Best Implementers Live By This Principle
Salesforce ChaCha
December 06, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
Good morning, Salesforce Nerds! Gilbert K Chesterton was an English philosopher, responsible for today’s principle 😃 ⬇️
Agenda for today includes
Chesterton’s Fence
Daily Principle
All the Memes
Chesterton’s Fence
Today we will discuss-
💃What Is It? 🕺
💃 Why Should You Care? 🕺
💃 What’s Included? 🕺
💃 How Do You Get It? 🕺
WHAT IS IT?
Chesterton’s Fence, per Wiki, is
…the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.
Using the namesake Fence to explain further-
A person who buys a property finds a fence on their land. The fence is old and ugly and the property owner instructs workers to have it removed.
The next morning, the property owner comes back to find their land is full of cattle- grazing, trampling, and 💩 on their formerly pristine fields.
That fence was there for a reason….
And think about it-
Fences are hard to construct 😅. The materials, the effort, and the time- intent and purpose are the drivers behind that construction 💯.
Had the property owner considered why there is a fence on the property, instead of simply removing “an eyesore,” the unintended consequence of his fields being trampled would have been avoided.
⬆️ This is Chesterton’s Fence.