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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