At a previous job many years ago, after a project would fail my coworker and I would habitually remark, “we’ve learned another way not to do things!”
There’s just such an abundance of creative ways to screw things up! But that’s kind of the point of the mental model — our brains are pretty good at spitting out tons of ways that things will fail. So hijack that process by making that list and then invert it.
There’s just such an abundance of creative ways to screw things up! But that’s kind of the point of the mental model — our brains are pretty good at spitting out tons of ways that things will fail. So hijack that process by making that list and then invert it.