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Resilience Coffee/2025/07/18
- Conway's Law
- prefigurative ...
- Meshtastic
- governance of growing commons in a gift economy
- Learning from drills/tabletops
- Commander / Deputy role split
- Suprised by suprise about level of expertise
- Awareness of saturation, adapative capacity of peers
- Ask about capacity when delegating
- Professional athletes review the tapes.
- Like teachers, or pilots
- Hoping to make the retro public
- Deputy role definition?
- Commander - Communicator?
- General deputy - go and read these docs
- Scribe?
- ICS?
- Incident within Incidents
- Retros infrequently have exec leadership
- humanize the experience of the exec
- Skill at putting execs to work within the incidents
- 4 responses to overload: reduce thoroughness, shed load, recruit resources, or defer workloads
- true for human & computer systems
- source: Woods, Hollnagel. Joint Cognitive Systems: Patterns in Cognitive Systems Engineering. p.126.
- Power differential vs bias between labor and management
- delegating in emergency
- hey you, go call the police, and come back to tell me when you're done?
- Retros for non-Incidents
- Burnout is solved by healing
- Doing the things you love to do
- thread in RLS.
- burnout a function of the environment, not the individual
- consider: execs show up for what they need which may come at the expense of solving the problem
- metaphorically similar to burnout
- burnout is having things I have chosen to do that I can no longer do.
- specific example: attempting to persuade people to invest in incident analysis and resilience engineering
- how did you decide what you want to do?
- followed my nose with intense curiosity.
- context: econ—constructing models for how people interact
- disappointed in the rigor of the models
- also unsatisfied with treatment of important problems
- academia is fad-driven
- encountered measurement theory... kept following my nose
- looked at problems that were deeply interseting. found my way to people who enjoyed the same conversation
- resolution(?) of singularities
- soumya's thesis
- valuation theory
- Physical manifestations of impact "You can change the people or you can change the people"
