Don’t tick boxes: Difference between revisions

This disposition that ticking a box - fulfilling a formal requirement to have taken a step, followed a process, or sublimated an original thought should generate any comfort other than a false one, feeds on, just as it nourishes, related dogmas: of ''cost'' reduction, at all cost, that all unknowns can be known, that all vestiges of risk can neutralised, bifurcated, cauterised and ''eliminated'' to leave a pure, crystalline residue of concentrated ''reward''.  That [[The End of History and the First Man - book review|history is at an end]], that the universe can be brute-force computed, and the fact that it hasn’t yet is a minor inconvenience that we can tide over just as long as we check of few boxes and keep a clear audit trail.