How much does the Safety cost?

Airplanes use check lists, do they not?

Except they use the list to ensure a set of tasks (which the pilot knows intimately) are completed. The checklist isn’t used to “teach”. It is a memory aid, not an instruction list.

Alas, this philosophy is found all over our society…education, entertainment, etc.

Here is a TedTalk video on this exact topic: “Our loss of wisdom”. The whole video is worth a watch, but it starts at 8m 34s which correlates to our discussion about rules/procedures being useless. “Rules and incentives positive in the short-run, but create downward spiral in the long-run.”

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