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Watch team backup • Otherwise

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Making it ok to check

Skip to content Originally published on The Whole Sky This is a useful concept that’s been written up in its original military context, but I wanted to write out how it’s also applicable in more mainstream settings. Amy Labenz introduced “watch team backup” to the Centre for Effective Altruism where we both work; Amy learned it from a friend who’d worked on a nuclear submarine. On a nuclear submarine, it is extremely important that there not be mistakes, so there’s a culture of double- and triple-checking. Here’s how one veteran of the nuclear Navy, Jared Chaffee, describes it: “The…

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