Normalization of Deviance
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2019-02-22 06:39
Normalization of deviance is the idea that things are designed and limits are calculated. We can go this fast, this hard, this hot, this cold, this heavy. But we always want to optimize. We want to do things cheaper, quicker, more at once.
And the thing is, most of the time going a little faster, a little hotter, that’s fine. Nothing goes wrong. Engineers always design in a safety margin, as we’ve learned the hard way that if you don’t, shit goes wrong very fast. So going 110% as fast as the spec says? Probably OK. But the problem is what if you’ve been doing that for a while? You’ve been going 110% all the time. It’s worked out just fine. You’re doing great, no problems. You start to think of 110% as the new normal, and you think of it as just 100%.
source: L