4 ms·
Hi. I'm Henshaw of Rule 37. AMA.
by GlenTheMachine 3y ago
Hi. I'm Henshaw of Rule 37. AMA.
- carabiner 3y agoWhat work are you doing these days?
- GlenTheMachine 3y agoI'm the lead roboticist on this: https://www.darpa.mil/program/robotic-servicing-of-geosynchronous-satellites https://www.darpa.mil/program/robotic-servicing-of-geosynchr...
- Rebelgecko 3y agoWhat's the backstory, was there a situation where you were the blamee (or the blamer?)
- xNeil 3y agoWhat's a line of blame?
- e40 3y agoI take it to mean when blame is being aimed you are not in the line of fire.
- Eduard 3y agointeresting - I understand it differently, namely as in: "at a project's beginning, define rules such as 'if component X explodes, it is team ABC's fault'". context: > 37. (Henshaw's Law) One key to success in a mission is establishing clear lines of blame.
- bombcar 3y agoBlame is just another word for responsibility. If you don’t have clear lines of blame you don’t have clear responsibilities.
- innrautha 3y agoI took it to mean clearly delineated responsibilities (i.e. who gets blamed when a part / aspect doesn't work). If there are unclear boundaries between responsibilities, things will fall through the gaps when one group assumes another will take care of something.
- firewolf34 3y agoFurthermore, when people are held responsible for quality completion of a task, they are often more driven to achieve the task at-quality. This must be balanced with not over-taxing them, but that's a given.
- GlenTheMachine 3y agoCorrect!
- jiveturkey 3y agothink org chart. now put your cynical hat on.
- mmaunder 3y agoThanks for the clear line of blame.
- aredox 3y agoWell, you can tell us about the event/project that led you to coin that rule and how it panned out...
- GlenTheMachine 3y agoIt's been long enough that my memories are fuzzy, but I believe it was this: https://ssl.umd.edu/ranger https://ssl.umd.edu/ranger The project was highly successful from an R&D perspective, but it never flew in space for a variety of reasons. SOme of those were related to a lack of funding and/or national commitment to spacecraft servicing, and some were due to us not executin the program as expeditiously as we probably should have.
- starkparker 3y agoWho doesn't love grapplers?
- moffkalast 3y agoAh, so now we know who to blame for making this list so long. Success won't escape us this time.
- throwawaylinux 3y agoRule 46. They can ask you anything, but you don't have to answer.