I spend a lot of time getting checklists together at work, mostly for other people, and then ruthlessly removing extraneous items from the list (usually by fixing unreliable things that are of the sort: step 5: Do X. step 6: double check that step 5 actually happened)
I get lots of credit for the former, but maybe one in five people see the latter as the bigger contribution.
We end up having to deal with things when we are tired. You have to make them so an idiot can do them, because some day you will be that idiot. All day exhausting meeting followed by a major emergency. Kid up half the night with a fever. New video game just came out. Bad dreams, whatever.
I get lots of credit for the former, but maybe one in five people see the latter as the bigger contribution.
We end up having to deal with things when we are tired. You have to make them so an idiot can do them, because some day you will be that idiot. All day exhausting meeting followed by a major emergency. Kid up half the night with a fever. New video game just came out. Bad dreams, whatever.