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Jerry Weinberg has a useful heuristic along these lines, paraphrased as 'Things are the way they are because they got that way one logical step at a time.' Unde
by pjmorris 10y ago
Jerry Weinberg has a useful heuristic along these lines, paraphrased as 'Things are the way they are because they got that way one logical step at a time.' Understanding the history and the relationships behind current circumstances goes a long way toward easing your own frustrations, and supporting necessary changes.
- nradov 10y agoThe technical term for this is "path dependency". http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/path-dependency.asp http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/path-dependency.asp
- otoburb 10y agoAnother term is "Chesterton's Fence".[1] [1] http://www.theconceptsproject.com/chestertons-fence/ http://www.theconceptsproject.com/chestertons-fence/