The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was quoted on the newest Hugh and the Rabbi and I immediately thought of the unceasing battle against ‘best practices’. Here is the Kierkegaard quote:

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

While the quote itself is good, the commentary surrounding it (I think from Johnnie Moore, I don’t know their voices) frames the problem even better:

… so many efforts where we see what happened in the past, turn it into a model and project it merrily into the future and don’t pay any attention to the fact that things change, people change, people are different, every context is different.

Seems like a pretty good framing of why Best Practices are myths.