This would have been more readable if you gave concrete examples of each kind of problem. It seems like your claim might be a useful dichotomy, but in its current state it’s likely not going to cause me to analyse problems differently or take different actions.
The difference between Mountains and Clouds seems to be the most critical. They’re both described as “problems with many small causes”, and now I know they need different strategies, but I don’t feel well equipped to notice differences, if any.
To be more specific, after rereading the article and thinking for a few minutes, the skill seems to be in correctly deciding whether to accept “everything is a little slow and painful!” as a single big symptom (Mountain), or seeing it as an excuse to not examine and uncover the many small symptoms contributing to that feeling (Cloud). Probably a good place for some heuristics on what bad diagnoses look like.
This would have been more readable if you gave concrete examples of each kind of problem. It seems like your claim might be a useful dichotomy, but in its current state it’s likely not going to cause me to analyse problems differently or take different actions.
The difference between Mountains and Clouds seems to be the most critical. They’re both described as “problems with many small causes”, and now I know they need different strategies, but I don’t feel well equipped to notice differences, if any.
To be more specific, after rereading the article and thinking for a few minutes, the skill seems to be in correctly deciding whether to accept “everything is a little slow and painful!” as a single big symptom (Mountain), or seeing it as an excuse to not examine and uncover the many small symptoms contributing to that feeling (Cloud). Probably a good place for some heuristics on what bad diagnoses look like.
That still seems too vague to be useful. I don’t have the slack to do the work of generating good examples myself at the moment.