Smh - scrimmage

a reason I'll forever hate 'root cause' - it invites oversimplification and weaponization of complex events to reach harmful conclusions.

breaks my heart to see otherwise wonderful content used to empower maliciousness.
twitter.com/dhh/status/178…

It's been a while. I wrote a blog post instead of writing a thread here. I hope you're not tired of xz backdoor discourse yet.

Here is chs. 10/11 and the book David Woods posted about.

researchgate.net/publication/32…

Claim: automation reduces MTTR but increases P99TTR. The common problems become easier, but the hardest problems get even harder.

It’s not rational, and I can’t explain why, but the Unix systems companies like DEC, Sun Microsystems, and SGI felt always gave me a “cooler” vibe than the cloud giants (Amazon, Google, Microsoft). Must just be when I came of age.

Tired: artificial intelligence
Wired: artificial good judgement

Great weekend in the desert! Marcus Kelcher ECNL Girls

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2 Shutouts Lily Campbell

Loved giving this presentation. Great questions from the audience afterward too.

Communicating in organizations can feel so obvious to some of the people in them. But have you ever been new in an org and almost felt like you needed a “My Org Duolingo” to figure things out?

It’s

And remember, your culture becomes what you tolerate.

Management topic of conversation in one of the groups I’m in outside of work:

“What do I do with my brilliant jerks?”

Fire them. They’re not as brilliant as you think they are (or as brilliant as they are loud and angry…).

Getting some extra work in at Next Level soccer! ⚽️💪

ECNL/GA/Recruiting/College Soccer College Soccer Truth ™

Burn out is not excluded from Conway's law

The health of your people will show up in your systems too (probably with some delay)

New blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/03/26/the…

'Most of the system operations go smoothly; incidents that occur do not usually lead to bad outcomes. These systems have come to be regarded as 'safe' by *design* rather than by *control*.'

– R.I. Cook, D.D. Woods, Operating at the Sharp End: The Complexity of Human Error
2/2

'Human error is the attributed cause of large system accidents because human performance in these complex systems is so good. Failures of these systems are, by almost any measure, rare and unusual events. ' 1/2

“Accidents are almost always the result of rare combinations of normal performance variability and chance combinations of unlikely events.” – training.nwcg.gov/courses/UOHTML…

the ultimate strange loop is when 'we are what we study' - which is all projects to develop/deploy new technology in worlds of human activity - which is all of them as they all presume to serve (some) humans purposes.

David Woods live at the white board
Resilience Engineering for Engineers
3/28/24 12:45-2:00 pm Eastern US
osu.zoom.us/j/99131130095?…
1 How Systems Engineering copes with complexity via simplifications
2 How RE Fundamentals guide Architecting Systems when complexities/scale dominate

Part2 Resilience Engineering view of Sys. Eng. is Tuesday 4/2 12:45-2pm eastern: Reconstructing Systems Eng: How Fundamentals in Resilience Engineering guide Architecting Systems when complexities/scale dominate. osu.zoom.us/j/99131130095?…