And yes, #regulation (and generally, any #legislation) should be subject to constant #review.

Not as means to stifle it, but as like a "Performance Review", asking critical questions like:

• Why was this regulation put in place?
• What was the intended outcome?
• What is the actual outcome?
• What consequence do we take from any disparities of the latter two?
• Is this even relevant anymore, or some abandoned vestigal rule that doesn't apply because it's rationale & reasoning doesn't exist anymore?

And then act accordingly.

• Ideally requesting public testimonials and comments from those affected, mandating a 1:1:1 parity between those at the compliance (i.e. businesses), enforcement (i.e. city authorities) and beneficiary (i.e. consumers) side.

#politics #regulators #ConsumerProtection #EnvoirmentalProtection #OverRegulation #BlindSpots

So, what naturally follows is that we are routinely blind to everyone else’s needs.

Everyone struggles with something, but they might not saying anything.

If we don’t create the conditions for people to tell us what they need, then we are essentially handing out right handed scissors to a room full of lefties, and we don’t even know it.

Is this our best chance at success?

#BlindSpots

@jbigham

I hope one of the #LessonsLearned is to implement a “maker-checker” protocol.

For many hierachical, command-and-control, authority-conscious organizations, this can be a common #AntiPattern: the head/executive/leader goes offline to create “content”, and nobody reviews it for #sensemaking, #blindspots, or unintended #messaging.