Great article. Of the many places where I struggle, one is that those who consider themselves worms can often be detrimental to the ecosystem. In nature, worms have a simple and set purpose. In human organizations, many of those nutrient makers inject their own complex opinions and tend to dismiss the other organisms' needs. As an example a platform engineer may make a tool that strongly ties to a development pattern that they use, which is not fine when (a) that pattern isn't used by many others and (b) that pattern is fundamentally flawed.
So how can human systems deal with worms that are bad for the ecosystem?
Also, compost is made up of the remains of both successful and failed experiments of the past. Interesting.
Great article. Of the many places where I struggle, one is that those who consider themselves worms can often be detrimental to the ecosystem. In nature, worms have a simple and set purpose. In human organizations, many of those nutrient makers inject their own complex opinions and tend to dismiss the other organisms' needs. As an example a platform engineer may make a tool that strongly ties to a development pattern that they use, which is not fine when (a) that pattern isn't used by many others and (b) that pattern is fundamentally flawed.
So how can human systems deal with worms that are bad for the ecosystem?