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I want to write more about this, but it has been a really difficult subject to structure. I gave up halfway through this article, for example, and never published it – I didn't even get around to editing it, so it's mostly bad stream of consciousness stuff: https://entropicthoughts.com/root-cause-analysis-youre-doing...

I intend to come back to it some day, but I do not think that day is today.

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Just started reading the linked text after reading your comment and I agree, this is high quality education, and enjoyable. It's an art, really. Thank you for sharing your work and please keep it up.

Just a thought I had while reading your introduction: this is applicable even to running a successful business model. I'm honestly having trouble even putting it into words, but you have my analytical mind going now at a very late hour... Thanks!

Ok. I am impressed with your ability to take such complex subjects and make them plain, you are delivering very high quality here. The subject is absolutely underserved in the industry as far as I'm aware of it, and I would love to have a book that I can hand out to people working on software in critical infrastructure and life sciences that gets them up to speed. The annoying thing is that software skills are values much higher than the ability to accurate model the risks because that is only seen as a function of small choices standing by themselves. A larger, overall approach is what is very often called for and it would help to have a tool in hand to both make that case and to give the counterparty the vocabulary and the required understanding of the subject in order to have a meaningful conversation.

Edit: please post your link from above as a separate submission.

Write it as a children's book. A literal ELI5.

(Knowing, of course, that it will still be read mainly by engineers. But that's the charm.)

I have a rather over-confident five year old, so would LOVE that book right now.

Your writing is good, please keep at it. I think it would help a lot if you made it clearer when you're talking between root-cause-analysis for software, aviation, other things, or generically.

Also, your train-of-thought is pretty deep; bulleting runs out of steam and gets visually confusing, especially with the article table-of-contents on RHS, you're only using <50% of screen width. Suggest you need numbered/lettered lists and section headings and use the full screen width.

Thanks, I would buy your book. But I understand the effort necessary all too well.

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