In this framework, Bullshit Mountain and Cloud of Doom have two distinguishing factors:
1. Bullshit Mountain is multi-cause, single symptom, vs Cloud of Doom being multi-cause, multi-symptom
2. Bullshit Mountain is recoverable, Cloud of Doom is unrecoverable. (Or at least, Cloud of Doom as framed here is stronger evidence that you either need drastic changes or to give up)
Both distinctions seem worth being aware of, but I’m not sure how natural it is to cluster them together. It seems like a sufficiently big Bullshit Mountain could make the situation unrecoverable, or a sufficiently small cluster of problems/symptoms could require “everyone picks up a shovel and digs and probably doesn’t really get proper credit but the organization is still pretty functional.”
In this framework, Bullshit Mountain and Cloud of Doom have two distinguishing factors:
1. Bullshit Mountain is multi-cause, single symptom, vs Cloud of Doom being multi-cause, multi-symptom
2. Bullshit Mountain is recoverable, Cloud of Doom is unrecoverable. (Or at least, Cloud of Doom as framed here is stronger evidence that you either need drastic changes or to give up)
Both distinctions seem worth being aware of, but I’m not sure how natural it is to cluster them together. It seems like a sufficiently big Bullshit Mountain could make the situation unrecoverable, or a sufficiently small cluster of problems/symptoms could require “everyone picks up a shovel and digs and probably doesn’t really get proper credit but the organization is still pretty functional.”