How Many Ways Can You Fail? A Taxonomy of Corporate (in)Decision
summary
A practical taxonomy of how corporate decisions stall and how to fix them: distinguishes strategic vs tactical choices (kubernetes vs swarm, architecture vs tooling like puppet or ansible), quantifies impact (one slow manager can block 200–15,000 people), recommends a 70% decision heuristic and the cone of uncertainty to force tradeoffs, shows a real outage resolved in 24–36 hours by taking responsibility and running a follow-the-sun rescue, and gives concrete counters to sandbagging, overcommunication, and bureaucratic denial-of-service.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:23About me
- 1:05Disclaimer
- 2:55Decisions
- 10:32Antipatterns
- 14:04Personal battle story
- 17:10Fear
- 21:07Too much communication
- 24:22Unjustified fear
- 25:42Show respect
- 29:17Make it ridiculous
- 31:00Hold on to your horses
- 33:17Oppenheimer and Feynman approach
- 36:02Going 0 Dark 30
- 37:46Selfish Interest
- 38:41Delay
- 39:18Sabotage
- 39:50Antipattern
- 40:29Just Crazy
- 41:00Denial of Service
- 42:21Managers from Upstairs
- 43:20Part 2 Rules for Rebels
- 43:40Whats Next
- 44:29Conclusion
- 44:53Outro
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