Navy Training Wins Election For Obama

Commenter Gringo left a link to an Atlantic piece about how the Obama team won the election that had this little gem embedded:

Hatch was playing the role of dungeon master, calling out devilishly complex scenarios that were designed to test each and every piece of their system as they entered the exponential traffic-growth phase of the election. Mark Trammell, an engineer who Reed hired after he left Twitter, saw a couple game days. He said they reminded him of his time in the Navy. “You ran firefighting drills over and over and over, to make sure that you not just know what you’re doing,” he said, “but you’re calm because you know you can handle your shit.”

And that is the way to do any project. Test it well past the realistic limits. Even for the simplest ones.