Safe to Fail
Introduces safe-to-fail experiments as the right unit of action in complex systems. Distinguishes between safe-to-fail (bounded, reversible, cheap to learn from) and safe-to-succeed, and shows how defining what's safe to fail reshapes how teams approach risk.
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