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Why I love flawed systems - and you should too

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People tend to think of designing systems and having the end goal be perfection. That one day you'll be able to figure out the perfect system with the perfect arrangement of if thans and all the contingency planed for and the system will be done.

These type of system though are actually absolutely useless.

You wanna know why?

Because you're human and this is a wonderful thing!

Join me for today's podcast to find out why you actually want to have flawed systems around you and the biggest mistakes people make in trying to design the perfect system and discover a system that you use every. single. day without realising.

A Note On Transcriptions - In the interest of simplicity, I'm using Descript* to make podcast publishing as easy as possible. This means that sometimes the transcript won't match what I'm saying and sometimes it'll be hilariously different (tag me on Twitter telling me the funniest transcription you've found).


This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
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Manage episode 318747411 series 3290290
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People tend to think of designing systems and having the end goal be perfection. That one day you'll be able to figure out the perfect system with the perfect arrangement of if thans and all the contingency planed for and the system will be done.

These type of system though are actually absolutely useless.

You wanna know why?

Because you're human and this is a wonderful thing!

Join me for today's podcast to find out why you actually want to have flawed systems around you and the biggest mistakes people make in trying to design the perfect system and discover a system that you use every. single. day without realising.

A Note On Transcriptions - In the interest of simplicity, I'm using Descript* to make podcast publishing as easy as possible. This means that sometimes the transcript won't match what I'm saying and sometimes it'll be hilariously different (tag me on Twitter telling me the funniest transcription you've found).


This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:
Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
  continue reading

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