Law of Control
Source status: Attributed to Claude
The harder you try to change other people, the more you change only yourself, and for the worse.
- Claude
Law of Responsibility: The person you blame will turn out to have warned you.
- Claude
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This law belongs with Murphy's Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.
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