Synesis | safetysynthesis.com
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Open Society
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Kitchen Soap – Learning from Failure at Etsy
(This was originally posted on Code As Craft, Etsy’s engineering blog. I’m re-posting it here because it still resonates strongly as I prepare
A funny thing happens when engineers make mistakes and feel safe when giving details about it: they are not only willing to be held accountable, they are also enthusiastic in helping the rest of the company avoid the same error in the future. They are, after all, the most expert in their own error. They ought to be heavily involved in coming up with remediation items.
So technically, engineers are not at all “off the hook” with a blameless PostMortem process. They are very much on the hook for helping Etsy become safer and more resilient, in the end. And lo and behold: most engineers I know find this idea of making things better for others a worthwhile exercise.
What does it mean to have a ‘blameless’ Post-Mortem?
Does it mean everyone gets off the hook for making mistakes? No.
Well, maybe. It depends on what “gets off the hook” means. Let me explain.
Having a Just Culture means that you’re making effort to balance safety and accountability. It means that by investigating mistakes in a way that focuses on the situational aspects of a failure’s mechanism and the decision-making process of individuals proximate to the failure, an organization can come out safer than it would normally be if it had simply punished the actors involved as a remediation.
Having a “blameless” Post-Mortem process means that engineers whose actions have contributed to an accident can give a detailed account of:
what actions they took at what time,
what effects they observed,
expectations they had,
assumptions they had made,
and their understanding of timeline of events as they occurred.
…and that they can give this detailed account without fear of punishment or retribution.
Why shouldn’t they be punished or reprimanded? Because an engineer who thinks they’re going to be reprimanded are disincentivized to give the details necessary to get an understanding of the mechanism, pathology, and operation of the failure. This lack of understanding of how the accident occurred all but guarantees that it will repeat. If not with the original engineer, another one in the future.
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The Extended Mind - Annie Murphy Paul
A bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains—in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships
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Holding Change
pFacilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future?/p
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Laleh Khalili · In Clover: What does McKinsey do? · LRB 15 December 2022
The primary product sold by all management consultants – both software developers and strategic organisers – is the...
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A Veneer of Benevolence | Dorothy Roberts | INQUEST
For many years, I believed that the child welfare system could be reformed, but no more. It needs to be abolished.
If we have developed mutual aid networks that were well supported, along with cash income, and other kinds of support — such as universal, high-quality health care, universal high-quality education, universal high-quality housing for everybody — we would go a long way to abolishing this system. There simply would be no need for it.
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The giant problem American health care ignores
The United States spends more and gets less in health care. Here's why.
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Get Police Vaccinated
And prison guards, and jail workers, and anyone else charged with protecting the public’s safety.
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Medicine for the People - Boston Review
As more and more doctors awaken to the political determinants of health, the U.S. medical profession needs a deeper vision for the ethical meanings of care.
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The Kind Nature Behind the Unsocial Semblance: ADHD and Justice Sensitivity—A Pilot Study - Thomas Schäfer, Thomas Kraneburg, 2015
Objective: Although ADHD is largely associated with antisocial behavior, those affected are often said to show pronounced justice sensitivity. To investigate th...
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Public Broadcasting reporter released after DHHR pressure
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Public Broadcasting has parted ways with one of its reporters after alleged retaliation from WVPB operational management and pressure from the Department of Health and Human Resources. According to Amelia Knisely, a part-time reporter whose beat included public health, WVPB told her that her services were no longer required in a […]
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A Lifeline for the Hour of Despair: James Baldwin on 4AM, the Fulcrum of Love, and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of th…
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Why Punching Down Will Never Be Funny
Conservative talking heads like Jesse Watters and Lauren Southern don’t seem to understand that slapping someone in the face and saying it’s comedy isn’t enough.
The real difference is that comedy shows or segments that are legitimately funny always punch up. Instead of wasting their time going after people who are typically in the minority, they go after people with tangible power that’s being abused. A basic tenet of humor — and I mean real basic, we’re talking ancient Greece here — is that your best stuff will come from going after people bigger than you.
In the last few years, there’s been plenty of concern-trolling over whether comedians and comedy can still be funny if everyone is so easily offended by the work. The argument is that audiences are more sensitive, less willing to “take” a joke, and so the art form suffers for it. But this fundamentally ignores that making fun of the weak has never been funny. George Carlin talking about the seven words you can’t say on television was funny because he was taking on an establishment with arbitrary rules. Amy Schumer making a rape joke about Hispanics isn’t funny because there’s no analysis of where the power is. The same is true of how we talk about social issues online: What worth is there in getting angry when you’re going after people who have nothing to give you? The mistake is always in thinking that power is being taken from you, rather than realizing that people who have routinely been Othered are simply trying to give themselves power.
But slapping someone in the face and saying it’s comedy isn’t enough.
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Punching Up, Punching Down
Why Melissa Wolf is right and Matt Groening is wrong.
A tradition in comedy says: Always punch up, never punch down. That is to say, don’t attack people who are already marginalized.
stimpunks·goodmenproject.com·Autism Research - 2022 - Keating - Autism%E2%80%90related language preferences of English%E2%80%90speaking individuals across the globe A.pdf
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The City That Kicked Cops Out of Schools and Tried Restorative Practices Instead w/ Andy Kopsa | Human Restoration Project | Podcast
Des Moines Public Schools ends its contract with police, focuses on restorative practices, and improves outcomes for everyone. An education podcast from Human Restoration Project.
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Militarism, Baudrillard, Video Game Design, and the College Board | Human Restoration Project | Podcast
How we can reimagine our spaces by examining the weird, eerie, and tangentially related. An education podcast from Human Restoration Project.
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Unpacking “Neoliberal” Schooling, Part 3: Progressive Education: Enter the Matrix
…the world seems no longer to be one that is under human control (if it ever was), but a world that is de-regulated in all major aspects…
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98: Militarism, Baudrillard, Video Game Design, and the College Board | Human Restoration Project
Listen to 98: Militarism, Baudrillard, Video Game Design, and the College Board from Human Restoration Project. In this podcast we've decided to experiment a bit with our programming. To be honest, right now there's a ton of burnout in the education world, from the pandemic to ongoing struggles of teacher power and support, and the culture war once again resurfacing in the classroom. As educators by day and nonprofit workers by night, we totally get that struggle.Therefore, we're putting a slight pause on our typical interview format to try out something new. This frees us up from the workload of scheduling, researching, and working with guests. And, it opens up the door for us to produce more casual content. If you like the guest stuff, don't worry - we'll come back to that in early December! But...if you like the new stuff, please let us know.In this podcast we're going to go through four parts:An update of what we're working on at HRP.Article shareouts that Nick and I have been interested in recently.Talking about what we're currently doing in our classrooms.A pop-quiz to see who exits this podcast alive (or something.)And we discuss:Militarism and increased nationalism in the classroom.Simulation theory, Baudrillard, and fatal strategies.How video game design relates to classroom pedagogy.Celebrating Columbus Day (and the surrounding debate) and its context to nationalism.The corruption of large-scale nonprofits, including testing companies and public charter networks.
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the best thing to do is to make friends with chaos: The Matrix, Simulation, & Education
In this video, we’ll explore the connections between teaching, reimagining education, and the work of philosopher Jean Baudrillard, the philosopher who heavi...
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Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory
"Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory" published on 16 Nov 2020 by Brill.
stimpunks·brill.com·Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory: Turning Right to Go Left by Kep Kline and Kristopher Holland
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Tired Of Battle Anime? Here's Four Wholesome Shows You Should Check Out
From Spy x Family to Way of the Househusband, here are the GOATS of feel-good anime
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Life as a hedgehog - Traumatism
Autistic people are often described as having a spiky profile. This refers to our neurodivergent tendency to have great strengths in some areas and deficits in others. These peeks and troughs of functioning, be they related to social skills, self care, academics or anything else, can vary over the course of the day and/or lifetime … Continue reading Life as a hedgehog
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Children, Learning, and the 'Evaluative Gaze' of School — Teachers Going Gradeless
The evaluative gaze of school is so constant a presence, so all-pervasive an eye, that many people have come to believe that children would actually not develop without it. But an oak tree does not require your opinion to grow, and believe it or not, 90% of the time, neither does a child.
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Reframing History
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We need a more productive public conversation about history.
Amid ongoing national controversy, it is more important than ever for the history community to be able to clearly explain what history is, how we come to understand
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