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Kitchen Soap

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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180
 
 
Counterfactual Thinking, Rules, and The Knight Capital Accident
 
 
High Tempo, High Consequence

Recent Posts

  • My Next Step
  • Invited article in IEEE Software – Technical Debt: Challenges and Perspectives
  • Multiple Perspectives On Technical Problems and Solutions
  • Book Suggestion: “Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together”
  • Abstract As A Verb
  • Architectural Folk Models
  • Reflections on the 6th Resilience Engineering Symposium
  • Some Principles of Human-Centered Computing
  • An Open Letter To Monitoring/Metrics/Alerting Companies
  • Stress, Strain, and Reminders
  • The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys)
  • Translations Between Domains: David Woods

Recent Posts

  • My Next Step
  • Invited article in IEEE Software – Technical Debt: Challenges and Perspectives
  • Multiple Perspectives On Technical Problems and Solutions
  • Book Suggestion: “Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together”
  • Abstract As A Verb
  • Architectural Folk Models
  • Reflections on the 6th Resilience Engineering Symposium
  • Some Principles of Human-Centered Computing
  • An Open Letter To Monitoring/Metrics/Alerting Companies
  • Stress, Strain, and Reminders
  • The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys)
  • Translations Between Domains: David Woods