The journey to chaos starts all over again — Telstra systems failures

The butterflies were flapping their wings again and brought the Telstra network failed for the 3rd time in a couple of months.

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We live in a paradoxical world. Technology is binary, logical, essentially deterministic. And yet the interconnected world it has helped create is unpredictable, unstable, almost wild. We crave control, we covet closure. We cannot…

Listened to a BBC programme at about the same time as reading a book on the evolution of English language (not THE English language since it does have its differences across the World). Contributors to the BBC show, a Swedish who does way pointers, noted how English continues to evolve because it is the 2nd or 3rd language for many and use it…

Great story Mike, beautifully told too, thanks for sharing. I loved how you used the first principles idea to simplify a complex uncertain future. It reminds me of the Ralph Stacy’s matrix which crosses levels of certainty with levels of agreement to diagnose the decision making context. see here something I wrote about using the right tools when…