The Logic of Failure
Failures in the Moro planning game evoke dismay in the observer precisely because the cause-and-effect relationships are so simple.No one is distressed by failing to see very subtle points that require specialized knowledge. We are distressed, however, if we overlook the obvious. And that was the case here.
Like the Moros, we face an array of closely-though often subtly-linked problems. The modern world is made up of innumerable interrelated subsystems, and we need to think in terms of these interrelations.