{"id":2733,"date":"2018-09-10T01:40:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T06:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2018-08-25T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T13:49:56","slug":"multiplying-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/09\/multiplying-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiplying Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes we recognize our failures. Then\u2014for some strange reason\u2014we attempt something that will fail an order of magnitude more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have failed to manage our $1 maintenance budget. Let&#8217;s correct this by starting a $10 development budget.<\/li>\n<li>We have failed to communicate in daily operations. Let&#8217;s correct this by starting a large project that requires excellent communication.<\/li>\n<li>I have failed at managing my home. I&#8217;ll correct this by becoming a manager at work so I will make more money and can hire a home manager.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hmmm, realization of failure, followed by uh, well, er something that requires a correction that is much bigger than our past failure. That makes sense. Right?<\/p>\n<p>Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Learn to walk before trying to run. But that is slow, and I am ready or maybe I am just impatient. The future won&#8217;t wait for me to learn to walk, will it? Tomorrow has enough trouble of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the path to learning is to learn our own shortcomings and the necessity of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we recognize our failures. Then\u2014for some strange reason\u2014we attempt something that will fail an order of magnitude more. We have failed to manage our $1 maintenance budget. Let&#8217;s correct this by starting a $10 development budget. We have failed to communicate in daily operations. Let&#8217;s correct this by starting a large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,312,20,35],"tags":[260,313,142,157],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-failure","category-humility","category-learning","category-time","tag-failure","tag-humility","tag-learning","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}