Re:Root cause of failure, root cause of success
by fighterpilot on Sunday August 15, 2021 @05:46AM
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You're getting at the Münchhausen trilemma.
You are technically right, so let's just pick a pragmatic and useful definition of root cause: the preceding event or circumstance that is at right the level of abstraction and proximity where knowledge of this will be maximally helpful to people in similar situations in the future.
You are technically right, so let's just pick a pragmatic and useful definition of root cause: the preceding event or circumstance that is at right the level of abstraction and proximity where knowledge of this will be maximally helpful to people in similar situations in the future.