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Pros
Amazon has to grow the size of its failure fund as it grows. Google clocks up thousands of little failures.
In aviation there is a profound respect for complexity. The mere presence of black boxes, hence the books title, illustrates the airlines industries open approach to learning from failure. Mercedes mercedes sees weaknesses with a different set of eyes... Read More
Matthew syed argues that the answer is due to the culture in companies and human psychology. Syed provides sobering examples of systematic failures in our criminal justice system through wrongful conviction.
A million patients are injured by errors during hospital treatment in america alone. The full death toll due to avoidable errors in american healthcare is more than half a million people per year. Mr syed investigates examples of how failure have been... Read More
Capital one now executes more rcts than all other kinds of institutions combined. Medicine and criminal justice often not take ownership of mistakes, calling them ‘one-offs’ or an anomaly, never admitting to the failure. This is where the excuse is no... Read More
Cons
There is too much repetition. Some of the anecdotes are very interesting but the overall content seems to be stretched to fill in pages. The author quotes extensively from popper.
Highlights
Quality
An extremely insightful science based book on failure and whats wrong with the way we look at it
Illuminates what is really happening with your mind and suggests pathways to dealing with the minds ability to play tricks
I am fully agree with the author
We are so eager to impose patterns upon what we see so hardwired to provide explanations that we are capable of explaining oppo... Read More
Price
The cost of those medical errorsthe cost of medical error has been conservatively estimated at more than 17 billion in the us alone
Evolutionevolution is a process that relies on a ‘failure test’ called natural selection
Shipping
It seemed like a rational process – but it was too slow
Fast failurei always hated the notion of “fail fast” in the context of startups
Packaging/appearance
The myth of the ideathe eureka moment is not the endpoint of innovation
Competitiveness
Gritjames dyson worked his way through 5127 prototypes while his competitors didn’t get through the first 100 not because he wa... Read More
Dyson creates hundreds of prototypes for a new vacuum cleaner and arrives at a vacuum cleaner 10x better than its closest competitor
Our legal systemthe legal system is another sector where we refuse to learn from mistakes
More randomised control trials rtcswe need more randomised control trials
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I am fully agree with the author
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Black box thinking is all about capturing those failure points not letting those vital lessons slip away
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One of the biggest lessons i learned was not to hold back and wait to make large improvements but to make small 1 improvements every day
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Good start but looses momentum
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I find it sicking that doctors lawyers prosecutors and police offices have the audacity to believe that they dont make mistakes
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In black box thinking matthew syed argues that this traditional approach to failure has severely limited human advancement
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Instead syed proposes that we must learn to embrace failure by changing our deeply held attitudes towards it
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Specifically syed focuses on their divergent approaches towards failure
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