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How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal
Have you ever mentioned something that seems totally normal to you only to be greeted by surprise? Happens to me all the time when I describe something everyone at work thinks is normal. For some reason, my conversation partner's face morphs from pleasant smile to rictus of horror. Here are a few representative…
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Society, Policy & CultureTech Industry & Business2015
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2015 | How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal by Tenoke | 631 | 252 |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Normalization of Deviance (2015) by akshaykarthik | 447 | 219 |
| Jan 25, 2020 | Normalization of Deviance (2015) by pabs3 | 180 | 43 |
| Dec 3, 2017 | Normalization of deviance in software: broken practices become standard (2015) by sidcool | 125 | 27 |
| Sep 6, 2025 | Normalization of deviance (2015) by tyleo | 58 | 15 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 30 Hacker News comments by 24 different people, from Dec 2015 to Feb 2026.
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- lliamander · Jan 18, 2024
