Beware converting non-engineering problems into engineering problems.

The McNamara fallacy: focus on what is measurable, and ignore what's not.

The streetlight fallacy: focusing only on what is easy to measure, not what matters.

The actions you take under the streetlight might actively harm the parts out of the streetlight.

You focus on the direct effects and away from the indirect effects, and you can quickly cause more harm than good.

If you know that the indirect effects are hard to grapple with, you're less liable to forget about them.

When you have a machine, you'll focus on what the machine can do and see, even if it's only a small part of the story.

You'll forget the other parts, and as you become increasingly blind to them, you'll steamroll right over them.

Some problems are complicated; they can be decomposed into an engineering problem and solved.

But many of the most important problems are fundamentally complex.

To navigate them requires grappling with their inherent complexity, dancing with it, not pretending it doesn't exist.