Right Kind of Wrong | Amy Edmondson

Why it is included: Adaptation is not magic; it is a mechanism.

That mechanism is "Intelligent Failure."

Harvard professor Amy Edmondson replaces the vague notion of "learning from mistakes" with a rigorous scientific framework.

She distinguishes between "Basic Failures" (sloppiness), "Complex Failures" (system breakdowns), and "Intelligent Failures" (necessary experiments).

We include this to replace the "soft" view of adaptation with the "hard" science of iteration.

In a transition where no one has the map, our survival depends on the speed of our learning loops.

Edmondson provides the systemic blueprint for how to run those loops safely, proving that the most adaptive systems are not the ones that never fail, but the ones that fail smartest.