The Practice of Practice: Teamwork in Complexity
summary
Explains how group intuition forms through repeated rehearsal and a concrete example of a broken guitar string causing a coordination surprise when the band changes key without everyone knowing. Introduces Fundamental Common Ground Breakdown as the failure mode when shared assumptions diverge. Walks through a Chaos Engineering Game Day that uses observability and controlled blast radius, verifies capacity, discovers overseas data replication is unnecessary, and saves thousands by changing the architecture; highlights a hidden push-button deploy that would have avoided an incident.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 2:31What Is Improvisation
- 6:49John Cage
- 8:19Non-Ideomatic Improvisation
- 8:52Free Improv
- 11:06Bela Fleck and Alison Krauss
- 13:22Socio-Technical Systems
- 17:10How Common Ground Fails
- 25:46.There Are no Wrong Notes in Jazz Only Notes in the Wrong Places
- 26:41The Practice of Practice
- 27:03Live Demo
- 27:28Canadian Chart
- 31:48Properties of a Chaos Experiment
- 34:51Resilience
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