
Gerald Weinberg
American computer scientist and authorWikipedia
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Oct 7, 2026
Signals & Levers - Part III with Elisabeth Hendrickson & Joel Tosi
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8:33Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
Um, This is in the chapter on illusions.
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8:37Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
And so Jerry Weinberg loved to say that it's not a crisis, it's the end of an illusion.
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8:44Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
And in the book, we talk about the three big kinds of illusions that we see over and over and over again.
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8:50Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
The illusion of predictability, the illusion of control, and the illusion of progress.
Signals and Levers: Building Thriving Engineering Organizations
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3:34Joel TosiGUEST
And so they want to help, but they help in non-helpful ways.
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3:39Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
Jerry Weinberg called that inflicting help.
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3:42Shane HastieHOST
Inflicting
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3:43Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
help.
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3:44Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
Yes.
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3:45Shane HastieHOST
The late, great Jerry Weinberg.
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3:48Shane HastieHOST
So this does segue us a little bit into, I happen to know that the two of you have written a book that is all about systems thinking.
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3:59Shane HastieHOST
What's systems thinking and why does systems thinking matter?