# This Seems Likely to Fail By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-02-13 If you spend enough time analyzing organizations, ideas, and human systems, you'll eventually develop an innate sense of the inevitable failure of those things. You won't always be correct, but you'll be right enough that you'll begin to wonder what you should do with such knowledge. Regardless of what our culture says, most things fail and fall apart. It is the nature of the universe (e.g. entropy), and hardly anything lasts. So, when you start detecting these failures, you are beginning to observe and understand something real and tragic. This is all part of the analyst's journey, and it can be a dark place. If nearly everything fails, why try? Why do good things? Why not just get your piece of the pie? Sell out and retire in Hawaii. This is a reasonable option that many people take, but I think you'll find their understanding of the world is different. Their actions only look like your actions. You know what you are doing and the evitable failure of your work, but almost everyone else is clueless and following the path of least resistance and expectation. If you choose to sell out and retire in Hawaii, you'll likely never be happy, and it will eat away at you slowly. So, you'll struggle and hope your observations and understandings are wrong. Until one day you'll accept it for what it is and enjoy the work because it is the work. Once your eyes are opened, the path forward is straight into failure because doing otherwise destroys you from the inside. It is human nature to continue the struggle and synthesize it into something meaningful. #### Related Items [[Analytics]] [[Thinking]] [[Failure]] [[Systems Thinking]] [[Suffering]] [[The Human Condition]]