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Having to be a hero once could happen to anybody.

But absolutely refuse to work with anyone who makes a habit of it.

Heroism is an error condition: it means that problems were allowed to get bad enough that extraordinary intervention was required to address them.

It's symptomatic of a failure to understand and preempt hazardous situations, and implies either an inability to conduct operations safely or a lack of planning.

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JamesAshburnerCBR@aus.social

JamesAshburner

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@munin The famous military maxim is
“Prior Planning & Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance”.
Part of that first P triplet is *risk assessment*, including both questioning assumptions (safety, reliability, predictability), and considering unexpected events, complications, or failures. This inverts “what could possibly go wrong” complacency, so it becomes a powerful tool.

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ljs

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@JamesAshburnerCBR @munin Absolutely love the P's though I heard it as 'Proper Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance'. Mere pedantry however, the meaning of it is as clear as day.
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ljs

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@munin A corollary for me is that you can never fix things bottom-up - it's pure myth. If something's broken in a team and you're not in a senior enough position to mandate fixes, leave that team.

All too easy for junior engineers to have blame put on them for things that are the fault of senior people or to imagine they can somehow fix things if only they proposed a brilliant enough idea.
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