Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people cite it constantly as the clearest explanation of normalization of deviance and how complex systems drift toward failure.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

O'Reilly

Topic

complex systems safety

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

15

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• Richard Cook's writing and talks on systems have hugely shaped my thinking on systems. For those interested in more, he gave a highly entertaining talk on system resiliency here and introduces a helpful model. [VIDEO] I also wrote a post summarizing how I think about …

• > the staff had become “de-sensitized” to the risk of a serious accident. Yet again serious problems happen due to the Normalization Of Deviance. We really need to find a way to create working conditions that encourage correcting problematic situations immediately before the behavior becomes …

• One of the most important talks I've ever seen is Richard Cook's "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"[1], in which he explains the fundamental abstract mechanism that causes the normalization of deviance. [1] [VIDEO]