• The Science of Can and Can't 📚
• by Chiara Marletto
• Publication date: 2021-05-04
• Read: Aug 12, 2024

I was intrigued by the title when I saw the book in the bookshop as counterfactuals are something that is seen as not desired in the process of learning from incidents. So I was really curious how this can serve as a probably different perspective and interpretation in other sciences. The book is not a completely easy read and there are definitely dense parts in understanding the more complex topics like quantum information and heat/work like transfers. But I can definitely say the book opened my mind to thinking about capabilities rather than dynamic law like rules of systems and it’s something I still chew on, especially in relation to learning from incidents and analyzing complex systems to learn from their failures.