The potent risk/fragility is a combination of a) crisis or stress situation where you’re sloppy b) legit need to temporarily secure assets in centralized ways (transport etc) c) confounding circumstances (medical emergencies etc) Perfect storm for errors piling on errors
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I have other smaller examples. Once a friend was in an accident and I had to drive him to hospital. Under the emergency stress, hey, I hit another car in my hurry to back my own car out. Minor bump/scratch, but still.
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In general, moral of the story, things are more likely to go very wrong when they are already going slightly wrong. The more complex the system/environment, the more crises will cause such 2nd order failure interactions.
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I have no problem admitting I’m not exactly the best person in an emergency/crisis. I’m not awful, but I’m not a good first pick, shall we say. I’m best in slower, less urgent situations where there’s time to think.
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I’m sort of C- okay in physical crises (acting fast, locally) but I’m at my worst dealing with crises involving bureaucracy/paperwork. I get flustered and thrash and there’s a good chance I’ll make things worse if I don’t slow down, breathe and consciously switch gears.
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Replying to @vgr
do the grades change if it's your personal problem or someone else's? e.g. i am a total fail at personal bureaucratic crisis. my registration expired and now i can't drive? good as dead. but if i had to figure out your entire federal tax liability last minute...
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I’m slightly better helping others of course, but increasingly for a lot of stuff others can’t easily do it for you. Like calling credit card companies etc.
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i guess i spent too long in the LA assistant racket. doing that kind of "deeply invasive" stuff is exactly what i'm used to. i can run the arduous details of someone else's life far better than my own.
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But that’s different. Presumably rich people employed you and set it all up before a crisis hit.
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sadly, that's not how it usually works. 'stars, they're just like us'.
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They retain you during a crisis?
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many of the folks in that type of lifestyle are in perpetual crisis. your main job is to keep the ship from taking on too much water. monday you're shuffling divorce papers between attorneys tuesday you're trying to figure out why the musicians are late wednesday the dog died
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