# Kitchen Soap – The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys) - Host: [kitchensoap.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/kitchensoap.com/) - Saved: October 20, 2017 (2017-10-20T13:08:30Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4a1ae1fed0a4/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4a1ae1fed0a4.json ## What Jamie wrote Good article suggesting that "How?" is the better question instead of "Why?" when doing incident retrospectives. The suggestion is that why too often leads to an answer of who, which makes sense and I've also seen happen. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT24: Weekly Thing for October 21, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/24/), Links 📌 ## Same host - [Etsy’s Chef Repo, 2010](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/993c983c5474/) (kitchensoap.com, December 31, 2010) - [Kitchen Soap – Multiple Perspectives On Technical Problems and Solutions](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cc9777f885f7/) (kitchensoap.com, September 14, 2017) - [Kitchen Soap – On Being A Senior Engineer](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a847ef74e3a4/) (kitchensoap.com, November 24, 2017) ## Saved the same week - [TECHdotMN Meet A Minnesota CTO: Shivani Stumpf, Hoonuit - TECHdotMN](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a7656f03a87c/) (tech.mn, October 19, 2017) - [“What Have I Done”: Early Facebook Employees Regret the Monster They Created | Vanity Fair](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6bc8f3af738c/) (vanityfair.com, October 19, 2017) - [I haven't experienced imposter syndrome, and maybe you haven't either](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/10a1a31bb335/) (rachsmith.com, October 19, 2017) - [How your boss does their 1-1s tells you a lot about what they think their job is | Phil Wicklund | LinkedIn](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/129d983a6fa8/) (linkedin.com, October 19, 2017) - [Dave Pell of NextDraft discusses fake news, tech, and startup investing](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9763b0aeb0dd/) (letterlist.com, October 20, 2017) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.kitchensoap.com/2014/11/14/the-infinite-hows-or-the-dangers-of-the-five-whys/