I love professionals taking works of fiction very, very seriously with regards to their specialty, both for incongruent humor value and because this is a great learning device for the underlying truths about the real world.
Star Trek and corn:
Star Wars and why the Imperial Navy made the right choices with respect to weapons system procurement:
Lord of the Rings and the solvable challenges of infantry defensive doctrine against overwhelmingly superior combined arms: angrystaffofficer.com/2016/11/04/war…
Challenges in project management and the inadvisability of delegating it to consultants capable of murdering people with their minds and predisposed to doing so in response to accurate Gantt charts: medium.com/@HybridAnalyst…
Payment systems designed by magical thinking cultists with too much love of the gold standard and too little appreciation for the microeconomics of wand shops: kalzumeus.com/2014/08/05/har…
Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul, and how important it is that they are separated by sixty miles with minimal road networks and vanishingly little to eat: acoup.blog/2019/05/10/col… h/t @gerikson (This series is fantastic, in both senses of the word.)
@gerikson Postmortem for power failure, industrial sabotage, partial escaped asset event, and multiple work-related fatalities at a construction site and refresher on engineering ethics for the board of directors of InGen Corporation:
Occupational safety and industrial workstation productivity improvements possible through adopting the improved factory layout practices at Monster’s Inc:
