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Surfing Complexity – Lorin Hochstein's ramblings about software, complex systems, and incidents.
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Surfing Complexity – Lorin Hochstein's ramblings about software, complex systems, and incidents.
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| title | Surfing Complexity |
| description | Lorin Hochstein's ramblings about software, complex systems, and incidents. |
| url | https://surfingcomplexity.blog/ |
| site_name | Surfing Complexity |
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- [H1] Surfing Complexity
- [H1] References from my SREcon talk on stories
- [H1] Quick thoughts on GitHub CTO’s post on availability
- [H1] Grow fast and overload things
- [H1] Saturation
- [H1] Quick takes on Feb 20 Cloudflare outage
- [H1] Poor Deming never stood a chance
- [H1] Lots of AI SRE, no AI incident management
- [H1] Nobody knows how the whole system works
- [H1] On variability
- [H1] Ashby taught us we have to fight fire with fire
- [H2] Books
- [H2] Papers
- [H2] Saturation, again and again and again
- [H2] Taking it to the limit, and then over it
- [H2] The thing about tipping points is that you don’t notice until you tip
- [H2] Failovers are a different mode of operation
- [H2] Reliability vs security, the eternal struggle
- [H2] It’s not just about automation, it’s about more options for responders
- [H2] System intended to improve reliability contributed to incident
- [H2] How do you pass the flag?
- [H2] Cleanup, but still in use
- [H2] Reliability work in-flight
- [H2] People adapt to bring the system back to healthy
- [H2] OKRs as a mess-reduction mechanism
- [H2] Deming’s critique
- [H2] Classical control versus statistical control
- [H2] Drucker makes a manager’s life easier, Deming makes it harder
- [H2] Fixation: the single-agent problem
- [H2] Maintaining common ground is active work
- [H2] Spinning is hard
- [H2] Flying is even harder
- [H2] Complexity: threat or menace?
- [H2] Throwing complexity back at the computer
- [H2] Posts navigation
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| Surfing Complexity | Internal | Passing Juice |
| References from my SREcon talk on stories | Internal | Passing Juice |
| The Power of Stories | External | Passing Juice |
| From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice | External | Passing Juice |
| Patricia Benner | External | Passing Juice |
| Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative | External | Passing Juice |
| Edward Tufte | External | Passing Juice |
| The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA | External | Passing Juice |
| Diane Vaughan | External | Passing Juice |
| Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction | External | Passing Juice |
| Jack Hart | External | Passing Juice |
| Storyworthy | External | Passing Juice |
| Matthew Dicks | External | Passing Juice |
| When Do Stories Work? Evidence and Illustration in the Social Sciences | External | Passing Juice |
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| Thomas Basbøll | External | Passing Juice |
| Two Years Before the Mast: Learning How to Learn about Patient Safety | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Richard Cook | External | Passing Juice |
| An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents | External | Passing Juice |
| Nancy Leveson | External | Passing Juice |
| Clark Turner | External | Passing Juice |
| A Tale of Two Stories: Contrasting Views of Patient Safety | External | Passing Juice |
| David Woods | External | Passing Juice |
| Report of the Presidential Comission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Volume 2: Appendix F – Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle | External | Passing Juice |
| Richard Feynman | External | Passing Juice |
| Lorin Hochstein | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Uncategorized | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Quick thoughts on GitHub CTO’s post on availability | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues | External | Passing Juice |
| Feb. 9, 2026 | External | Passing Juice |
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| saturation | External | Passing Juice |
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| Grow fast and overload things | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Saturation | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Quick takes on Feb 20 Cloudflare outage | Internal | Passing Juice |
| public write-up | External | Passing Juice |
| Lorin Hochstein (@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com) | External | Passing Juice |
| 2026-02-22T01:57:40.994Z | External | Passing Juice |
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| Poor Deming never stood a chance | Internal | Passing Juice |
| shorter post I wrote about five years ago | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Measure What Matters | External | Passing Juice |
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| Lots of AI SRE, no AI incident management | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Datadog’s Bits AI SRE | External | Passing Juice |
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| Sincerely Media | External | Passing Juice |
| perspective-based reading | External | Passing Juice |
| 6 Comments | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Nobody knows how the whole system works | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| 11 Comments | Internal | Passing Juice |
| On variability | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast | External | Passing Juice |
| SaaS-Pocalypse | External | Passing Juice |
| Here’s Where AI Is Tearing Through Corporate America | External | Passing Juice |
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| Ashby taught us we have to fight fire with fire | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Spinning around: Please don’t! | External | Passing Juice |
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| almost as many Camel pilots died flying it in training as were killed flying in combat! | External | Passing Juice |
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| Boeing 737 MAX aircraft | External | Passing Juice |
| Air France Flight 447 | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron | External | Passing Juice |
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