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The port explosion in Beirut would make a perfect new chapter in Normal Accidents. I’m guessing the cause of the MV Wakashio accident will turn out to be a simp
by sradman 6y ago
The port explosion in Beirut would make a perfect new chapter in Normal Accidents. I’m guessing the cause of the MV Wakashio accident will turn out to be a simple failure rather than a complex and unexpected failure mode (Perrow’s “normal”).
- dredmorbius 6y agoEconomist Tim Harford has been running a small and occasional podcast series, Cautionary Tales. It opened with an episode discussing Perrow, produced immediately before, and releasing just after, Perrow's death last November. He's looked at risk, may be thinking of technical debt, and I've suggested Beruit. Recommended.
- sradman 6y agoThanks :-) Cautionary Tales Ep 3 – LaLa Land: Galileo’s Warning [1] has the following in the shownotes: > Charles Perrow’s Normal Accidents introduces the idea of complex, tightly-coupled systems and has good accounts both of the Three Mile Island and the Fermi reactor accidents. Just after we’d recorded the episode, I heard the sad news that Charles had died on November 12th. He’ll be missed. [1] https://timharford.com/2019/11/cautionary-tales-ep-3-lala-land-galileos-warning/ https://timharford.com/2019/11/cautionary-tales-ep-3-lala-la...