The Repeat Incident Fallacy: What Jurassic Park Can Teach Us...
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Claims that incidents can be made never to recur are false: complex socio-technical systems are in constant change so there are no true repeats. Two park breakouts 22 years apart share impact but differ in causes — hurricane, sabotage, staff evacuation, then later knowledge silos, communication gaps, and losing security context. Remediations and action items partly work and sometimes introduce new risks, exemplified by trained Velociraptors backfire. Incident analysis, pattern teaching, and operational playbooks improve response even though identical repeats are impossible.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00The myth of prevention
- 1:25Change in complex systems
- 3:15Lessons from Jurassic Park
- 5:46Why repeat incidents happen
- 7:04Evolving incident response
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