Watch this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090586/

> The captain was on a break when the co-pilots became confused by faulty air-speed readings. They then mistakenly pointed the nose of the plane upwards when it stalled, instead of down.

Investigators concluded the co-pilots did not have the training to deal with the situation

Blame.

This is very personal to me. I took that flight several times. Always went through strong turbulence.

"At 32 years old, Bonin was the least experienced pilot on the flight crew. When the aircraft's pitot tubes froze and iced over in a storm, the automated systems temporarily failed and disabled the autopilot. This forced the crew into manual flight. Because the Airbus A330 features independent, non-linked sidesticks, the other co-pilot in the cockpit, David Robert, could not physically feel that Bonin was holding his stick back. The aircraft's computer simply averaged their opposing inputs."

The experience of pilots has been dropping like a stone. This is hidden due to new technology, but when unusual situations arise many current pilots have no situational awareness.

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"A vote to reduce the 1,500-hour rule for pilot training will mean blood on your hands when the inevitable accident occurs as a result of an inadequately trained flight crew."

-- Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger

You allude to the difference between requirements and constraints. What you say is true, but also it's true that the Therac-25 was not designed to not output high power when an operator typed quickly.

This sounds to me like the tech version of QAnon.

Being a Staff Engineer vs just Senior gives you more leeway for negotiation with prospective employers.

"Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain. This book made me think about my own thinking and social behavior patterns.

In the article, it mentions "In any case, the majority of people are on a spectrum of introversion to extroversion.".

C'mon, don't you guys be so nitpicky... The comment above was made in the context of financial places, and is clearly referring to the "City" of London, as they call the financial hub, not the "City of London" as a whole.

I am only responding because I didn't know what "the City" means because I don't work in the financial sector

Yes, way better and using a humble tone, e.g. "Introverts are not smarter than extroverts. According to IQ scores, the two types are equally intelligent. And on many kinds of tasks, particularly those performed under time or social pressure or involving multitasking, extroverts do better."

Good postmortems should be created for human-induced errors or top-down decision to cut costs. Especially for those.

You don't need a post-mortem when you already know what the problem was.

If you knew what the problem was before the outage happened, and didn't consciously put the effort to prevent it, then oh well, that's professional negligence. Maybe not on you because you may not have the decision power to apply large-scale changes, but definitely somebody within the company. And if you didn't know what caused the outage, and you conducted some type of investigation to get at the heart of the problem, then you need a postmortem.

That's one of the main goals of a postmortem: document what the cause of the problem was, not just for you, but for all interested parties. If some human caused the issue, you need to document what happened and what should be done to prevent it from re-occurring. And fix it, of course.