Many, many, blog posts by Alex Kessinger (frequent inventor of words).

Once you’ve decided to adopt a new view of safety, and want to help an organization change, how do you know if you are changing anything? How do you know if you are successful? Especially considering the total organization overhaul you hope to achieve...

From my tiny West Berkeley apartment, with my family asleep upstairs, I typed into the search box: “python Berkeley”. It was 2015 and for the past 6 years, I commuted hours a day all over the Bay Area. My goal was eventually to create a startup. But...

Writing down remediation items is a seductively simple outcome for a post-mortem. It’s satisfying. “Yea, there was an issue but if we do these 3 things, we will be better off”. It’s all wrapped up in a nice bow. Although remediation feels like the right...

Software is key to a growing number of businesses. Which means working with software safely isn’t just prudent, it’s existential to many. The wrong kind of accident could wipe you out. Investigating incidents is a technique many businesses use to remediate...