No systems are perfect. They will always fail. You can see infinite examples of this in real life engineering systems.
To me, it feels like it’s rarely talked about in the context of “people systems”. I’ve never really talked about it at work in Agile Scrum or seen it mentioned in note taking systems or with frameworks like Getting Things Done.
These framework manifestos just seem to have this utterly flawed core assumption that you’ll just always stick to the magical framework letter for letter. Forever? Really?
I can’t ever really be sure if this is just a problem for me or not. Who knows, maybe the authors of these systems are truly just different and driven people who actually get these systems to stick without flaw.
These people must exist, in some capacity. There are people maintaining 1000 day streaks of work or whatever. Some streamers do it for 500 days in a row.
Likely, this feeling I’m having is not a “universal truth” (since There are no universal truths, imo anyway). But, I have to imagine most people are closer to the average of “wishing they could do better” vs. actually adhering to a system perfectly.