boiling frog Concepts

The Pragmatic Programmer

by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas · 19 Oct 1999 · 509pp · 92,141 words

Zachary, Stuart and Henry Contents Foreword Preface 1 A Pragmatic Philosophy 1. The Cat Ate My Source Code 2 Software Entropy 3. Stone Soup and Boiled Frogs 4. Good-Enough Software 5. Your Knowledge Portfolio 6. Communicate! 2 A Pragmatic Approach 7. The Evils of Duplication 8. Orthogonality 9. Reversibility 10. Tracer

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

by Anthony Doerr · 6 May 2014 · 464pp · 129,804 words

to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Etienne laughs as though to himself. “Do you remember what Madame said about the boiling frog?” “Yes, Uncle.” “I wonder, who was supposed to be the frog? Her? Or the Germans?” Volkheimer The engineer is a taciturn, pungent man named Walter

The Irrational Bundle

by Dan Ariely · 3 Apr 2013 · 898pp · 266,274 words

say for sure if this frog experiment works since I’ve never tried it (and I suspect the frog would, indeed, jump out), yet the boiling-frog story is the quintessence of the principle of adaptation. The general premise is that all creatures, including humans, can get used to almost anything over

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metaphor for, 124n Betty Crocker, 87 Bible, Gideon’s conversation with God in, 288–89 blindness, adaptation to, 172–74 blogging, 65 Blunder (Shore), 117 boiling-frog experiment, 157–58 bonuses, 17–52 bank executives’ responses to research on, 37–39 clutch abilities and, 39–41 for cognitive vs. mechanical tasks, 33

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

by Dan Ariely · 31 May 2010 · 324pp · 93,175 words

say for sure if this frog experiment works since I’ve never tried it (and I suspect the frog would, indeed, jump out), yet the boiling-frog story is the quintessence of the principle of adaptation. The general premise is that all creatures, including humans, can get used to almost anything over

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metaphor for, 124n Betty Crocker, 87 Bible, Gideon’s conversation with God in, 288–89 blindness, adaptation to, 172–74 blogging, 65 Blunder (Shore), 117 boiling-frog experiment, 157–58 bonuses, 17–52 bank executives’ responses to research on, 37–39 clutch abilities and, 39–41 for cognitive vs. mechanical tasks, 33

Quality Investing: Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term

by Torkell T. Eide, Lawrence A. Cunningham and Patrick Hargreaves · 5 Jan 2016 · 178pp · 52,637 words

Capabilities Svenska Handelsbanken: Corporate Culture Experian: The Forbidding Costs of Replication Saipem: Long Period Swells Nokia: Fast-Paced Innovation Nobel Biocare: Good-Enough Goods Tesco: Boiling Frog Elekta: Accounting Red Flags About the authors Lawrence A. Cunningham has written a dozen books, including The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America

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occur due to complacency and failure to appreciate when a once-great company is falling from grace. We refer to this as the problem of boiling frogs, referencing the experiments which purported to demonstrate that frogs dropped in boiling water promptly jump out but those placed in cool water whose temperature is

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enable us to jump out of the pot before being boiled. In addition to the problem of the boiling frog, the following section discusses mistakes of myopia, rationalization, and developing emotional attachment to investments. Boiling frogs Companies rarely deteriorate from great to good in a single quarter or year, but rather decline gradually over

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it is too late for the business to make corrections or for the investor to mitigate losses. Thus even small setbacks warrant rigorous evaluation. Tesco: Boiling Frog For many years, Tesco was the darling of the UK food retail industry. In an incredible run from 1995 to 2007, its UK market share

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann · 17 Jun 2019

add up to a bad outcome in the long term. The mental model often used to describe this class of unintended consequences is called the boiling frog: Suppose a frog jumps into a pot of cold water. Slowly the heat is turned up and up and up, eventually boiling the frog to

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death. It turns out real frogs generally jump out of the hot water in this situation, but the metaphorical boiling frog persists as a useful mental model describing how a gradual change can be hard to react to, or even perceive. The

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boiling frog has been used as a cautionary tale in a variety of contexts, from climate change to abusive relationships to the erosion of personal privacy. It

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harmful—it can help projects move along faster in the short term—but it should be done as a conscientious observer, not as an unaware boiling frog. If you have been involved in any small home repairs, you’re probably familiar with this model. When something small is broken, many people opt

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’ll die! There was an old lady who swallowed a horse; . . . She died, of course! To escape the fate of the old lady or the boiling frog, you need to think about the long-term consequences of short-term decisions. For any decision, ask yourself: What kind of debt am I incurring

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going too far in an argument). These mental models are the most useful when thinking about existential risks. After all, in the tale of the boiling frog, the frog dies. Therefore, you want first to assess what substantial harms could arise in the long term, then work backward to assess how your

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6). With this knowledge, you can then take the necessary level of precaution, paying down technical debt as needed, happily preventing yourself from becoming the boiling frog. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING On the side of an ancient Greek temple, home to the Oracle of Delphi, was inscribed the precept Nothing

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Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, + Website

by Matt Blumberg · 13 Aug 2013 · 561pp · 114,843 words

boiling, you’ll “boil the frog” because it doesn’t realize that it’s being very slowly cooked until it’s too late. We’ve boiled frogs at Return Path more than once. In one case, we let a staffing problem sneak up on us in a critical department. We were short

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

by Samuel Arbesman · 31 Aug 2012 · 284pp · 79,265 words

, See For Yourself. 86 I was taken to task soon after by James Fallows: Fallows, James. “Boiled Frog Does a Surreal Meta-Backflip.” The Atlantic, March 2, 2010. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/03/boiled-frog-does-a-surreal-meta-backflip/36934/. 90 research that quantitatively studied the differences: Barbrook, Adrian C

Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community

by Diana Leafe Christian · 14 Jun 2007

“long emergency” because it is occurring almost too gradually for most of us to register.The energy decline is often compared to the metaphor about boiling frogs: if you want to cook frogs and you put them in boiling water, they will immediately hop out, but if you put frogs in room

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World

by Paul Gilding · 28 Mar 2011 · 337pp · 103,273 words

heard used in this context by Professor Jorgen Randers. Let me start explaining this from the point of the counterargument, generally referred to as “the boiling frog problem.” This refers to the idea that a frog put into boiling water will jump out, whereas a frog put into cold water that is

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end denial until they believe there is a solution. Let me go through each of these in a little more detail. First, we are not boiling frogs and will not stand by observing our decline. The reason I am so sure about this is that the momentum for change we have built

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polls are going the wrong way, and there is little evidence that governments will translate widespread and genuine concern and understanding into real action. The boiling frog is indeed getting hot! So why am I so confident the world will respond and that when it does, it won’t be too late