{"id":2524,"date":"2022-08-30T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2025-07-12T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:38:16","slug":"whats-wrong-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/?p=2524","title":{"rendered":"What’s wrong with…?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We see patterns, create patterns, and think in patterns. Looking back at what I’ve written through the years in this blog, I see a macro pattern I can call, for the lack of a better name, the “What’s wrong with…” pattern.<\/p>\n

The object is usually some common practice or a discipline that has established certain norms and stabilized them through training, certification, and tool design. It could also be a mainstream way of thinking about or doing something. Its object is usually taken for granted, rarely questioned if at all. If I find it harmless or slightly problematic, I don’t bother writing about it, but when it’s more fundamental and detrimental, then there is motivation.<\/p>\n

So, this will not be a normal post but rather a signpost, a collection of pointers to posts with that pattern.<\/p>\n

“What’s wrong with” is actually in the name of one article,\u00a0What’s wrong with best practices<\/a>. It could’ve been in titles of many more. Yet, it’s good to be careful here because the context is important as Tim Minchin convincingly reminded us with his song Cont<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The non-exhaustive list will look like this:<\/p>\n

What’s wrong with…<\/p>\n