It has become fashionable of late to invoke the bus factor as though it were an inexorable law of nature, destined to bury your project the instant you hire so much as one competent specialist. Business, we are told, requires nothing but interchangeable cogs—each fitted with a correctly tuned heterodyne of work–life balance, each capable of wielding the frameworks and libraries handed down from on high—and, above all, nothing more…
