The Simple Genius of Checklists
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The Simple Genius of Checklists
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#2While I agree with the overall message, Boeing would not be my first choice for best practices on safety
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#3While I agree with the overall message, Boeing would not be my first choice for best practices on safety
Especially after reading this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20290449
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#4Reminds me of Chernobyl, where some steps within the safety system test checklist had been crossed-out for an unexplained reason and they had to essentially guess what to do. Not that a properly maintained checklist would have necessarily prevented it.
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#5Reminds me of Chernobyl, where some steps within the safety system test checklist had been crossed-out for an unexplained reason and they had to essentially guess what to do. Not that a properly maintained checklist would have necessarily prevented it.
I actually don't know if that detail is true or if it was added for dramatic effect in the HBO series. The official record seems to state that they simply didn't follow the approved procedures for the test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
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#6I have been a flight test and rocket test engineer. Checklists were life, especially in the rocket world. The fantastic thing about checklists is that they both keep you accountable and free your mental resources so that when something happens that one of your checklists don't cover, you know you've at least tried all the sane/expected things. I personally found that backstop freeing and allowed me to use my creativity when it was demanded by things going wrong.
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#7I cannot recommend this book enough. It is a great read due to good writing and interesting case studies, and the underlying message is immensely valuable.
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#8I have been a flight test and rocket test engineer. Checklists were life, especially in the rocket world. The fantastic thing about checklists is that they both keep you accountable and free your mental resources so that when something happens that one of your checklists don't cover, you know you've at least tried all the sane/expected things. I personally found that backstop freeing and allowed me to use my creativi…
It took three generations of flight training for checklists to become an essential part of aviation.
Note that a flight-training generation is less than a human reproductive generation; it's the time from first lesson taken to first lesson taught (plus some). It had to wait for the older instructors to retire.
We are still in transition, in medicine. Many physicians have not yet cottoned to hand-washing, yet.
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#9Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are big fans of checklists,too.[1]
Obviously, in a field like investing no checklist is perfect but at-least it'll help you avoid common pitfalls.
Source: Many of their shareholder's letters contain references to their approach. I found another one online.
[1]https://hurricanecapital.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/the-buffet...
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#10Surgical Safety Checklists are crucial for preventing what used to be a really shocking number of wrong-patient and wrong-side procedural errors.
Taking the good kidney out instead of the diseased one is practically murder.