• Sources of Power 📚
• by Gary Klein
• Read: Sep 24, 2023

I deeply enjoyed this book. I’ve had many discussions about Klein’s ideas and concepts before. I have for example applied his idea of premortems a lot before in architectural and operational reviews of technology changes. And his ideas about knowledge of expert workers is an important part of how I approach incident reviews and learning from them. The book is also an interesting opposite view in a lot of ways to Kahneman’s classic “Thinking, Fast and Slow” where a lot of emphasis is put on how the human mind can be tricked or is wrong. I took tons of notes from this book and there were so many things that reminded me of operating web services or planning and maintaining other complex systems. Definitely a strong recommendation to read from me.