Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Excellent!-----The Art of Just Doing Something About It - Mitch Berg

Analysis paralysis.
It happens when a team loses the ability to keep risks in perspective against the possible rewards of accepting the risks and pressing on...
For most of human history, governments have known that if you want to solve a fairly apparent problem, you...solve it. 
  • If a road has a pothole, the city that owns the road patches it, or makes the case to the city council to come up with the budget to fix it.
  • But over the past generation or so, that hypothetical city council was likely as not to have had the discussion about fixing the pothole derailed by an abstruse debate about the "root causes" of the potholes; global warming, people switching to SUVs, or the need for mass transit to get people to the businesses served by the road...
If people are committing crime? 
  • Put them in jail. Not only that, but give them the impression that someone is actively looking to put them there.
El Salvador has been a synonym for hopeless criminality for decades.
Then they started putting people in prison.
And suddenly:

Statistic: Homicide rate in El Salvador from 2014 to 2024 (in number of homicides per 100,000 inhabitants) | Statista

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