Dragonfly. retweeted
I asked Claude to come up with a few new rules for why systems fail and dang it, they are pretty spectacular.
Number 25, "Modern systems conflate efficiency with resilience" is especially great, as are 22 "System success paradoxically increases fragility" and 23 on mental models
This is a paper I post every six months as it is worth rereading; the 18 reasons complex systems fail.
Complex systems fail for complex reasons, and only adaption & learning by organizations, as well as individual "actions on the sharp end" keep us safe. researchgate.net/publication…













