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The severity of an outcome is not necessarily proportional to the quality of the decisions that led to it.
Drawn from what John Allspaw said
What John Allspaw actually said
- John Allspaw Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering
No decision maker has omniscience about results, so the severity of the outcome cannot be seen to be proportional to the quality of thought that went into the decisions or actions that led up to the result.
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