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Applied Protocol Thinking - Timber Stinson-Schroff

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Timber Stinson-Schroff closes Protocol School 2025 with a capstone talk on 'Applied Protocol Thinking,' arguing that protocol literacy is best built through 'protocol watching'—a low-intensity, habitual practice analogous to an endurance athlete's easy-pace training—before attempting high-stakes protocol design. He introduces frameworks like hazard-oriented protocoling (analogous to object-oriented programming), the Chesterton's Fence vs. Gordian Knot heuristic, and Erik Hollnagel's ETTO (efficiency-thoroughness trade-off) principle reframed as an ongoing tension to manage rather than solve, illustrating concepts with examples from dog-walking, library shelving carts, tree-trimming crews, and GitLab's engineering trade-offs.

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