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The Theory Behind Understanding Failure is a great article that provides a viewpoint that any system has more than just a technical aspect of it, as well as any failure (incident) is not a single isolated event. It uses some known and less known examples to illustrate it.

I also appreciated that it has references to the scientific works behind it. So, you can dive deeper, if you want to. The author did, however, misinterpret Nietzsche, but everybody does, so it's Ok.

#culture #theory
Evan Smith The Theory Behind Understanding Failure In the last 100 years, there’s been a lot of intense and distributed advancement in technology, and our use of it as a species. As technology advanced, it also brought catastrophic and costly failure. There’s a lot to be learned about the theory behind failure…
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