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People's actions are driven by local rationality based on their specific context and goals.
Drawn from what John Allspaw said
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- John Allspaw Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering
People do what makes sense to them, given their focus, their goals, and what they perceive to be their environment. This is known as the local rationality principle, and it is required in order to tease out second stories, which in turn is required for learning from failure.
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