This “ETTO principle” is kinda interesting
‘The ETTO fallacy is that people are required to be both efficient and thorough at the same time – or rather to be thorough when with hindsight it was wrong to be efficient!’
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The context is safety in critical systems/infrastructure but the tradeoff seems to be generally present everywhere
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“CAP theorem for humans” is an interesting characterization of the idea… is there a third item in the tradeoff then 🤔
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Erik Hollnagel wrote a book that is foundational to the #devops movement. It’s called “The Efficiency To Thoroughness Trade-Off Principle” and it’s a bit like the CAP Theorem but for people. amazon.com/dp/B009KOA6LA/
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Funny, this hit my radar because I was tagged into the wrong thread but it lines up neatly with things I’m thinking about 😆
Also shades of Gall’s Systematics
this bunnytrail may interest you
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I like this chart
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Tractable vs. Intractable systems is a model used by the safety science researcher Erik Hollnagel and his team.
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I’m thorough in thinking about things I’m interested in, but efficient about everything else.
Thorough in the sense that I don’t let go till I’m personally satisfied I’m roughly right. I rarely cite/footnote to the satisfaction of academically “rigorous” or rationalist types
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If anyone feels vaguely unsettled in the course of contemplating the phrase "efficiency and thoroughness" it may be because you're looking at two words with Latin and Germanic roots respectively and their correlating semantically identical suffixes, '-y' and '-ness'.
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