John Allspaw

@allspaw

Cofounder of , bringing Human Factors, Cognitive Systems Eng, Resilience Engineering methods to software. (he/him) Won’t speak on all-male panels.

Brooklyn, NY
adaptivecapacitylabs.com
Joined February 2008
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    16 Nov 2018

    Incident Analysis Training & Coaching

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    20 hours ago

    holy shit

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    How to grief
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    18 hours ago

    McSweeneys on lifting the lockdown is *chef's kiss*

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    May 6

    By request, I've turned this thread into a little more fleshed-out piece that you can easily share. I hope it's of use. (And obligatory plug: all the millions of apps on are a big step toward everyone having tech that we can trust.)

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  5. May 7

    With respect to the Facebook issue breaking other sites and apps, I'll make this observation again... (cc )

    It’s a helluva drug.
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    May 6

    Pretty hilarious to call out Axl Rose’s American patriotism and then ADD THE WRONG FLAG

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    May 6

    He’s definitely making a point, just not the one he thinks

    I actually wore a bandana covering my face, nose down, to go to the bank today. Whole time I'm thinking, 'I've convicted people on less evidence than this ...'
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  8. May 6

    A thread on the topic of “risk” worth revisiting...

    Risk is in everything we do. Short of never doing anything, there is no way to avoid all risk or ever to be 100% safe.
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  9. May 6

    The distinction between learning and fixing in the wake of an incident is an important one!

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  10. May 6

    As a CTO, I'd say that I spent upwards of 15-20% of my time handling requests from engineers in the situation represented below. (both of the perspectives) Almost all resulted in both parties acknowledging that the case they were trying to make were never "clear" 🙂

    is it you?
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  11. May 6

    How Learning is Different than Fixing - a post and a talk about

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  12. May 6

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    Hello Friends! Good news! if your company is looking to boost its Engineering Leadership practices, a spot has opened up on my Eng Leadership Consulting roster and I'd love to help you be successful. DMs are open!
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    May 5

    To better visualize observed data, we also continually update a curve-fitting exercise to summarize the boundaries of the US. Particularly with irregular coastlines, curve fitting can improve data visualization. As shown, the USGS boundaries have matched the data fairly well.

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    May 5

    How to moistly

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    May 4

    Well this is potentially the best news this decade:

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    May 3

    Want a thought-provoking new angle on ? Watch this:

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    May 3

    I’m running for United States Senate to defeat Mitch McConnell, and I believe in science.

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    May 3

    why hasn't anyone stopped the virus with Machine Learning

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    May 2

    Emerson, my 11 year old, is on a bit of a wild ride with the and our local mail carrier, Doug. And, I think there’s a deeper message to it all. First, the backstory...

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  20. May 3

    Unfortunately, Eggers nails it:

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    May 3
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    Ha! Good one. Shameless plug for a recent talk I gave about this

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