John Allspaw

@allspaw

Co-founder, Adaptive Capacity Labs. Former CTO, Dad. Author. Guitarist. Cognitive Systems Engineer.

Brooklyn
Joined February 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Dec 7

    Find value in the research? The Resilience Engineering In Digital Services ("SNAFU Catchers") Consortium is looking for new partners! For more info: Please RT

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    17 hours ago

    This is like saying we’re not accepting manuscripts from scientists who drink tea, only from coffee drinkers. Ridiculous!!!

  3. Retweeted
    Dec 19

    It is imperative in science to doubt; it is absolutely necessary, for progress in science, to have uncertainty as a fundamental part of your inner nature.

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    Hey, instead of saying you "discovered" something, like a genre of music or a culinary delight, you could say you were "introduced to" it. This avoids colonizing language AND lets you practice some good citational politics by saying who taught you about the thing.

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    Replying to

    There is no DevOps without everyone on call. And I mean up to the VPE Totally preaching to the choir but you have a larger audience 😊

  6. Dec 19

    “Experts in making diagnoses are not necessarily experts in explaining their process of diagnosis.” (Michalski & Chilausky, 1980, p. 63)

  7. Retweeted
    Dec 18

    So called “safety experts” need to drop this dangerous idea. People are dying because of our inability to apply

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    Dec 18

    The idea that accidents happen bc either mechanical or human failure is silly & preventing improving (rail) safety

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  9. Dec 18

    Want to support the Resilience Engineering research in software, like what produced the Stella Report? If your company can’t join the consortium but you’d like to contribute (for science!) check it out:

  10. Retweeted
    Dec 15

    Great article by on the power of aggregating experiences to overcome the limitations of individual perspectives in complex systems

  11. Retweeted
    Dec 15

    "Real leaders don't create more followers. They create more leaders."

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    Dec 15

    I'm working on a tool to help teams do their compensation calibrations: h/t for his original spreadsheet and comp calibration process!

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  13. Dec 15

    ICYMI - I have an article on collaboration in post-incident reviews in this issue of HindSight, ’s magazine on air traffic management safety.

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    Dec 14

    I rewrote Dickens for . I won't go so far as to call it a literary feat, but it's funny. I think. I don't know. Just read it and tell me what you think. How 'bout that?

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  16. Dec 15

    A fundamental in is that there is *always* a difference between work (as it is imagined gets done) and work (as it actually happens). See Julian Orr’s “Talking About Machines: An Ethnography Of A Modern Job”

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  18. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    "no you hang up"

  19. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    In case it wasn't clear enough that Damore isn't alone in his ideology and that the entire tech industry is rotten from the head, the latest "free speech" outburst from Altman should make that clear.

  20. Dec 15

    I have an article on collaboration in post-incident reviews in this issue of HindSight, ’s magazine on air traffic management safety.

  21. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    In which I interview the great about the tragedy of net neutrality for Rolling Stone.

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