&gt; Never attribute to incompetence that which can be explained by differing incentive structures.<p>Oh, man, this is such a deeply, vitally true thing. It&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve observed for a long time but never quite put it into words.<p>So often, when I see some person acting in a way that seems totally stupid to me, it turns out they were just operating with goals and constraints that weren&#x27;t obvious and were different from mine.