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You can’t fall asleep by flipping a switch and turning off your thoughts.You can only abandon one project, leaving some residual marginal value on the table so to speak, and dive into the deep end of another, where there is already a pre-existing party that you have to gatecrash.

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You can’t live life as a series of projects, with arrival and departure ritual events marking actual clean beginnings and endings.

You can only crash one career, more or less gracefully, and do some bricolage with the broken pieces to restart in another domain.

You can’t change careers by stopping one career and starting another.

Here are some illustrations from personal life at various levels of abstraction.

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Not only are there no kill commands (or the equivalent of Task Manager in Windows to force misbehaving programs to shut down) to forcibly stop behaviors, there is no equivalent to pulling the plug, short of perhaps some sort of controlled brain damage. If life and business, crash-only is not a choice but an operating condition, because both are bundles of entrenched habits without on/off switches. But that’s a bunny-trail for software engineers. Though not much actual software is written in crash-only ways, the emerging discipline of DevOps incorporates crash-only thinking in deployment processes. In software, I think crash-only design thinking has actually gone mainstream in a disguised form. This makes the rare crash events worse, since we are not used to dealing with crash/recovery periods and have no good transition-management meta behaviors. At some point, the burden gets so high, we actively wish for a disaster that can give us a fresh start. One way we do this is to burden a single crash-and-recovery event with a huge pile of accumulating necessary changes. We recognize this intuitively and try to minimize crashes. We want clean, smooth turns that smoothly and isentropically shed momentum in one direction and accumulate it in another direction. The fact that it is a crash means that, unlike normal decisions, there is a sharply increased probability of not coming out the other end.Ĭrashes are traumatic, high-entropy, messy ways to achieve transitions, which is why transitions in life and business are so hard. You have to crash what you’re doing and recover in a more promising direction. You can change how you order paper clips and your lunch buffet vendor in a graceful non-crash ways, but the rest is crash-only.Ĭrash-only means there is no such thing as gracefully starting and stopping non-trivial parts of your life or business. Management models embodied by an organization - all those organizational habits, incentive structures and CEO-message-reinforcement - is largely crash-only.

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The software in your head - all that neural code that drives all your thinking and habits - is largely crash-only. You can start and stop relatively simple behaviors in non-crash-only ways (like closing your eyes, starting and stopping coarse bodily movements like walking), but the rest is crash-only. Software ideas of crash-only design don’t port well to human lives and businesses. Transition management of any sort has to be entirely about crash-only mechanisms. It’s the only thing.Ī self-improvement system, or a management model for a business, that doesn’t solve for crash-only constraints isn’t a solution, because it will cost more in crash-recovery effort than the value it creates. In The Adjacency Fallacy, I argued that career transitions necessarily involve a period of anomie caused by status and value disorientation. Crash-only is the more powerful version of all those ideas. From a crash-only perspective, falling off the wagon (and getting back on) isn’t the main thing. On the Unraveling of Scriptswas about why major life transitions are necessarily messy.

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The idea of crash-only design steelmans a strawman idea of mine that has cropped up in multiple recent posts. In How To Fall Off the Wagon, I argued that falling-off-the-wagon is the right focal point for understanding self-improvement efforts. There’s a whole theory of crash-only software design apparently. It can only be restarted through some sort of failure-recovery routine, with a hard reboot being the most extreme kind. Often this means unplugging the computer physically. This is software that has no normal “start” or “stop” mechanisms. A few weeks ago, I learned about something called crash-only software (ht, Robert Greco).