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{{form and substance capsule}}
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These are divergent philosophies when organising a complex system.
These are quite divergent philosophies when one is managing [[risk]] in a [[complex system]].
Form has one advantage over substance, and one only: ''unit cost''.  You don’t need expensive experts who have invested the time and resources in understanding the territory: a [[school-leaver from Bucharest]], with a suitable command of English, and a sullen teenage disinterest in asking precocious questions will do. Better, in fact, since [[expert]]s ''docc tend to ask precocious questions, and that really isn’t in the spirit of things.
 
Form has but one advantage over substance: ''unit cost''.   
 
You don’t need expensive [[expert]]s, who have invested the time and resources in understanding the territory, to follow a [[playbook]]: a [[school-leaver from Bucharest]], with a suitable command of English and a sullen teenage disinterest in asking precocious questions will do.  
 
Better, in fact, since [[expert]]s ''do'' tend to ask precocious questions, and that really isn’t in the spirit of things in a formal world.


Here is how things roll in these opposing modes of operation:
Here is how things roll in these opposing modes of operation:
====Formal organisation====
====Formal organisation====
So we implement process ''A'', to deal with malign contingency ''X'', but processes being only simplified models — derivatives — of the worlds they represent,<ref>We take it as axiomatic that, the “real world” being analogue, fractal and complex, a process ''cannot'' perfectly map to a target contingency: to believe it might is to mistake [[the map and the territory|a map for the territory]].</ref> process ''A''’s shadow inevitably falls across ''benign'' contingencies ''Y'' and ''Z'': circumstances not needing process A, but which “[[If in doubt, stick it in|it won’t hurt]]” to subject to Process ''A'' anyway.
So we implement process ''A'', to deal with malign contingency ''X'', but processes being only simplified models — derivatives — of the worlds they represent,<ref>We take it as axiomatic that, the “real world” being analogue, fractal and complex, a process ''cannot'' perfectly map to a target contingency: to believe it might is to mistake [[the map and the territory|a map for the territory]].</ref> process ''A''’s shadow inevitably falls across ''benign'' contingencies ''Y'' and ''Z'': circumstances not needing process A, but which “[[If in doubt, stick it in|it won’t hurt]]” to subject to Process ''A'' anyway.
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