Some time back I'd written a bit on the hierarchies of failure, or if you invert the sign bit, mandatory success chain, in problem solving: awareness (is there a problem?), diagnosis (what is it?), etiology (root cause), objective (goal or desired end-state), redress (intervention or method), communications (coordination & recruiting of others), execution (getting ... things done), and assessment (post mortem, how did things go?). See:
- Come up with the wrong diagnosis (mistaking symptoms for syndrome, or falsely attributing root cause). Also, as you have, identifying a part but not the significant whole of the problem.
- Leaping straight in with a preferred method, a/k/a the "if you have a hammer..." syndrome (everything is a nail), or "garbage can theory" (you'll apply the set of tools in your toolbox to every problem, regardless of whether or not they fit).
The other stages, successful execution, coordination (which often significantly involved preventing others from blocking effective measures), and assessment, also appear, but typically are mooted by issues further up the chain, or apply to grander-scale problems.
Watch the video if you have the chance. It's good and thoughtful.
And it really doesn't involve crowdsourced work to much degree.
Edit: Swapped Wayback link for origin which is ... on RedditStrike.
Can you copy the hierarchies of failure here, or link to a non-reddit url? I tried to go there and it said the subreddit is private, so I couldn't get to the text.
One of the values of Hacker News is that the submission queue, voting, and discussion often (though, no, not always) serve as effective filters to surface interesting, thoughtful, relevant, or informative content.
I'm well aware that video and audio pose some challenges to ready consumption or perusal. That said, Tom Scott is among the more effective and informative YouTube creators out there, and I'd argue that this is among his best videos as well.
(Another that comes instantly to mind is his Royal Society lecture on truth and epistemology on the Internet.)
I'm also painfully aware that YouTube's policy shifts of the past day or so have made accessing and viewing content there even more obnoxious than usual.
Still, argument from ignorance tends to have weak foundations.
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I've noticed many people:
- Fail to acknowledge a problem at all.
- Come up with the wrong diagnosis (mistaking symptoms for syndrome, or falsely attributing root cause). Also, as you have, identifying a part but not the significant whole of the problem.
- Leaping straight in with a preferred method, a/k/a the "if you have a hammer..." syndrome (everything is a nail), or "garbage can theory" (you'll apply the set of tools in your toolbox to every problem, regardless of whether or not they fit).
The other stages, successful execution, coordination (which often significantly involved preventing others from blocking effective measures), and assessment, also appear, but typically are mooted by issues further up the chain, or apply to grander-scale problems.
Watch the video if you have the chance. It's good and thoughtful.
And it really doesn't involve crowdsourced work to much degree.
Edit: Swapped Wayback link for origin which is ... on RedditStrike.