Mnemonic Rules for Eponymous Laws or: There’s a Law for That!
summary
Walks through ten named laws relevant to SREs and gives concrete mnemonics, examples and outcomes: a cloud platform assembled from every tech stack aims for two‑hour provisioning but after two years still takes two weeks, costs millions and is retired — used to illustrate Gall’s law via digestive system/gallbladder. Covers Conway, Brooks, Jevons, Pareto, Chesterton’s fence, Hanlon, Cunningham, Hofstadter and Wong with specific mnemonics like brook goes over the waterfall, predictive value and a live quiz to test recall.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Eponymous laws intro
- 2:05Mnemonic tricks for laws
- 3:54Gall’s law analogy
- 5:12Good eponymous principles
- 5:56Conway’s law and teams
- 6:58Brooks’s law delays
- 7:44Jevons paradox growth
- 9:11Pareto principle risks
- 10:55Chesterton’s fence legacy
- 11:58Meme laws wisdom
- 13:22Wong’s law pitfalls
- 14:29Quiz on eponymous laws
- 15:55Environmental impact of efficiency gains
- 16:18Hofstadter’s law estimation
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