Edward Tufte's analysis of the Space Shuttle Columbia explosion[0] is by far the most informative post mortem I've seen. It directly impacted everything I've wr

Edward Tufte's analysis of the Space Shuttle Columbia explosion[0] is by far the most informative post mortem I've seen. It directly impacted everything I've written since reading it. If you hit the link, you'll see the page appears to be a wall of text, not a simple slide or two. As you read deeper into the report, you'll understand that's an intentional aspect of the report. (I'll also note this is the Columbia explosion, not the better known Challenger disaster O-ring post-mortem discussed by Richard Feynman in his autobiography[1], even though that's a great post mortem as well). [0]https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=... [1]https://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/0393355640/ https://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/03933...