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The storm is only the beginning: how design shapes system failures
Oct 21, 2026

The storm is only the beginning: how design shapes system failures

Takeaways from WorldQuant University's Foundations of Disruptive Systems: how system design shapes the spread of disruption and the difficulty of recovery. Single points of failure, the trade-off between efficiency and resilience, causal chain maps, leading indicators and accountability, with parallels for developers and an interactive cascade model.

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