Comments on: Hands in the machinery http://www.currion.net/2009/05/28/hands-in-the-machinery/ Paul Currion struggles to explain himself. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:20:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Paul Currion http://www.currion.net/2009/05/28/hands-in-the-machinery/comment-page-1/#comment-677 Paul Currion Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:21 +0000 http://www.currion.net/?p=699#comment-677 I think one of the implications in the articles is that this is a lesson that people need to learn - that some tasks can simply be unpredictable because the world is unpredictable. I'd tend to agree - having just tried to remove a small concrete outcropping on my stairs and realising that the rebar extends all the way out, I now need more time and money to fix it. On the other hand, my builders were cretins for leaving a small concrete outcropping on my stairs in the first place. I think one of the implications in the articles is that this is a lesson that people need to learn – that some tasks can simply be unpredictable because the world is unpredictable. I’d tend to agree – having just tried to remove a small concrete outcropping on my stairs and realising that the rebar extends all the way out, I now need more time and money to fix it.

On the other hand, my builders were cretins for leaving a small concrete outcropping on my stairs in the first place.

]]> By: Tom L http://www.currion.net/2009/05/28/hands-in-the-machinery/comment-page-1/#comment-676 Tom L Fri, 29 May 2009 07:38:56 +0000 http://www.currion.net/?p=699#comment-676 ... "but it would perhaps be simpler (if less politically acceptable) to simply hold people accountable for their actions." Not sure he thought that through: isn't it middle class lore that dealing with the "trades" implies taking on a certain degree of uncertainty as to the outcomes, costs, timings and disruption? … “but it would perhaps be simpler (if less politically acceptable) to simply hold people accountable for their actions.”

Not sure he thought that through: isn’t it middle class lore that dealing with the “trades” implies taking on a certain degree of uncertainty as to the outcomes, costs, timings and disruption?

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