This is part 1 of a 3-part series spanning my travels across 3 continents this summer and the lessons I learned about collective intelligence. Intro This summer I had 3 conferences, a summer camp, and a hackathon to attend across 3 continents, while…

Attempting to model complex things is fraught with peril. I’m going to explain my understanding of one method for doing so called Functional Resonance Analysis (FRAM), introduced by Professor Erik Hollnagel some years ago and described in this book. I’m writing to an audience not already steeped in the…

I’ve turned my Real World Risk series and Human Factors in Systems Safety series into a book. If you are interested you can get the eBook…

Hi Adam! You can read about my personal introduction to Resilience Engineering at a week-long intensive workshop in Sweden here: https://ballpointscimitar.medium.com/hf-day-1-first-and-second-stories-5ff293988c7d Alternatively, the intro on the REA website is a great place to start: https://www.resilience-engineering-association.org/resources/where-do-i-start/ The intro was written by another techie named Lorin, with whom I interact regularly as part of the https://www.learningfromincidents.io/ community.

Attempting to model complex things is fraught with peril. I’m going to explain my understanding of one method for doing so called Functional Resonance Analysis (FRAM), introduced by Professor Erik Hollnagel some years ago and described in this book. I’m writing to an…

Attempting to model complex things is fraught with peril. I’m going to explain my understanding of one method for doing so called Functional Resonance Analysis (FRAM), introduced by Professor Erik Hollnagel some years ago and described in this book. I’m writing to an…

Hello all. Just wanted to let you know that I’ve begun a weekly newsletter comprised of links to interesting content. If you find what I write here interesting, you will probably find the things I read compelling as well. You can read or subscribe to the newsletter here. I’ll still be writing articles here, of course. Next up will be something about the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM), which I’m currently evaluating for use at my day job (and more generally).

It was a year of deep study and contemplation. 2020 will take things further. Human Factors, System Safety, and Resilience I opened the year by attending a workshop at Lund University entitled Critical Thinking in Safety. My objective was to more deeply understand how failures and outages come about in software systems and what to do…

This article is the last of a 5-part series covering the Real World Risk Institute’s 1-week mini-course on Real World Risk, held in NYC. There’s statistics, complex systems theory, and strong opinions ahead. I’ve learned far more than I can adequately represent here, so these will more or less…