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by findthewords 343 days ago
I've heard that catastrophes occur when three things go wrong (at the same time).
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Yeah, and that the obvious “cause” of the catastrophe is the third or fourth etc. failure in a row that allowed the situation to snowball into something truly damaging. Reminds me (on the other side) of the “five whys” approach to root cause analysis.