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Three Zapier zaps, one broken CSV import, and a copy-paste session I'm not proud of. All because my CRM and my project tool have completely different opinions on what a contact is. At some point I stopped asking how do we fix this and just accepted it. When did tool fragmentation become a personality trait for tech teams?

The new workspace arms race is just churn reduction for employees. Companies can't fix the work, so they decorate around it. Think about it like your activation flow: if users need a tutorial to understand your core value, the product is broken. If employees need bean bag chairs to tolerate Monday morning, the job is broken. No amount of exposed brick fixes a bad product culture.

Contacts in HubSpot, deals in Notion, tasks in Linear, tickets in Jira. All of them confidently wrong about each other. Is this just the tax we pay for not building our own ops stack?