Zvi comments on Don't Fear Failure - Less Wrong

30 Post author: atucker 03 April 2011 10:52PM

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Comment author: Zvi 04 April 2011 12:15:43PM 2 points [-]

Understanding what happened is important, but I find five iterations to usually be far too many. You have to be careful when recursively asking "why?" because otherwise you end up with this.

Comment author: atucker 04 April 2011 11:13:00PM 0 points [-]

Point. That's just what they do at Toyota, where I imagine that they work with systems complicated enough to actually merit 5 "why?"s.

I personally find 2-3 to work in most cases.