Life Patterns · draft 79 of 95, not in the published book · outline v1.0.0, 2018, frozen · 148 words · the 2018 file · read and review
One way and two way doors
In 2018 this was an outline: a title and "Topics to cover and ideas". It was never in the published book, and it is shown exactly as it was left. The second edition fills it from the articles the map names.
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Topics to cover and ideas
- story how to approach decisions
- 'One-way door' decisions - no way back (or hard to revert). Once you go through and the door is closed you can't open it back
- 'Two-way door' decisions - easy to revert decisions. You can open back the door after going through
- in a lot of organizations, after a while there is an mis-understanding about the status of doors. i.e. there is a tendency that two-way doors and one-way doors, which leads to decision paralysis and adverse to take risks (i.e. open doors and try it)
- this is related to the concept of fail-fast
- Similar to story (I thinking from somebody in Google) that said "My metric for approve or not a project is based on how easy it is to roll back the changes (and its impact of real customers)'
Answered since, on the newsroom: The human in the loop is a spectrum: how cheap it is to undo, The human in the loop, safety net or bottleneck. The map row.