Routine practice inevitably closes off possibilities unless inquiry is built into it

Evidence

Built into every week of practice should be opportunities to review individuals’ work, share criticisms, and seek a collective capacity to improve performance. The orientation should be skeptical, for the objective of such sessions would be to resist where appropriate the early closure of possibilities that accompanies the inevitable routinization of practice. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1511

Categorization

• XREF: Directly names routinization closing possibilities — the mechanism the reader is testing for how practice outruns cultural narrative. — connects to: Sometimes not understanding how a practice works is crucial to its survival — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 349; People fail to re-evaluate established procedures when situations change only marginally — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 696; Habit eventually kills because activity only persists through not-yet-achieved aims — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 609 (+1 more)
• SEED: Angle: ‘The Early Closure of Possibilities’ — why routine work forecloses alternatives before any policy debate happens.

Broader Connections

• People fail to re-evaluate established procedures when situations change only marginally #corroborates (0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 696
• Habit eventually kills because activity only persists through not-yet-achieved aims #corroborates (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 609
• Logging is standard practice yet its effect on semantic validity goes unexamined. #exemplifies (0.80) — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 728