Partially, but not entirely. I read 11 as more of a subpoint of 10: Make a plan ahead of time, then stick to the damned thing. If you immediately throw out the plan book and do whatever, you didn't really have a plan, as the whole point of the plan is to constrain your behavior during crisis when you can't make decisions as well. Throw out rules and parts of the plan that don't seem to be working, but be clear that you are doing that and stick to the plan as much as possible, because chances are you are going to be tempted into bad ideas.
A friend who has done a lot of personnel hiring in the past told me that fifty per cent of his hires didn't work out. Same as a coin toss, in spite of the great care taking during the recruitment process. Once he discovered that they were mistakes, he started edging them closer to the door. Over time, his organization was staffed mainly by people who had worked out. Only experience can tell you. Prediction, said Bohr, is very difficult, especially about the future. Develop a plan, put it to work, but be ready to change it radically or perhaps just to refine it, as experience teaches.
I think COVID-19 did a lot for making people less trusting of government and bureacracy. There were some obviously silly ideas that people took seriously and there was hesitancy to update on new information, perhaps unless it was a harsher measure. A great deal of it became a social signaling game and a way to feel comfortable. Part of this is to blame on government, but part of it has to be blamed on human psychology. Even without government enforcement, people behaved very oddly.
2 and 11 contradict, don't they?
Partially, but not entirely. I read 11 as more of a subpoint of 10: Make a plan ahead of time, then stick to the damned thing. If you immediately throw out the plan book and do whatever, you didn't really have a plan, as the whole point of the plan is to constrain your behavior during crisis when you can't make decisions as well. Throw out rules and parts of the plan that don't seem to be working, but be clear that you are doing that and stick to the plan as much as possible, because chances are you are going to be tempted into bad ideas.
A friend who has done a lot of personnel hiring in the past told me that fifty per cent of his hires didn't work out. Same as a coin toss, in spite of the great care taking during the recruitment process. Once he discovered that they were mistakes, he started edging them closer to the door. Over time, his organization was staffed mainly by people who had worked out. Only experience can tell you. Prediction, said Bohr, is very difficult, especially about the future. Develop a plan, put it to work, but be ready to change it radically or perhaps just to refine it, as experience teaches.
How about condensing them down to one rule: "Don't try to run my life." The legitimate scope of government is very small indeed.
I think COVID-19 did a lot for making people less trusting of government and bureacracy. There were some obviously silly ideas that people took seriously and there was hesitancy to update on new information, perhaps unless it was a harsher measure. A great deal of it became a social signaling game and a way to feel comfortable. Part of this is to blame on government, but part of it has to be blamed on human psychology. Even without government enforcement, people behaved very oddly.
This is way too much common sense. It asks government to admit mistakes and corrections.
You missed opportunity to make a clickbait title like "The Top 17 Guidelines for Government That You've never Heard Of"
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It seems so, and yet both seem valid. Maybe more nuanced formulations would resolve the apparent contradiction.
(Replying to a deleted comment, which alleged a contradiction between 3. and 7.)