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Gerald Weinberg

Gerald Weinberg

American computer scientist and authorWikipedia

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Oct 7, 2026

Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
8:33
Um, This is in the chapter on illusions.
Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
8:37
And so Jerry Weinberg loved to say that it's not a crisis, it's the end of an illusion.
Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
8:44
And in the book, we talk about the three big kinds of illusions that we see over and over and over again.
Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
8:50
The illusion of predictability, the illusion of control, and the illusion of progress.
Joel TosiGUEST
3:34
And so they want to help, but they help in non-helpful ways.
Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
3:39
Jerry Weinberg called that inflicting help.
Shane HastieHOST
3:42
Inflicting
Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
3:43
help.
Elisabeth HendricksonGUEST
3:44
Yes.
Shane HastieHOST
3:45
The late, great Jerry Weinberg.
Shane HastieHOST
3:48
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.
Shane HastieHOST
3:59
What's systems thinking and why does systems thinking matter?

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