This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software

The academic and the practical in resilience engineering

This is Fine! A podcast about resilience engineering and software

Show Notes

Aerobarrier is super cool if you want to check out how it works: https://glbipro.com/aerobarrier-2/

Colette isn’t drinking alcohol, it’s a delicious herbal mocktail by Casamara Club: https://www.casamaraclub.com/products/como (Maybe we can get them to sponsor us someday)

On the passive house that survived the Palisades fire: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1hy22ui/house_designed_on_passive_house_principles/

Layer Aleph https://layeraleph.com/ folks have written Crisis Engineering: https://bookshop.org/p/books/crisis-engineering-time-tested-tools-for-turning-chaos-into-clarity-marina-nitze/44736d1287a7da6e and there will be an RISF event with them in September https://resilienceinsoftware.org/events/272451 , which means we’re hoping to get them on the pod in August, FYI!

More about the Lund program here: https://www.humanfactors.lth.se/

Dr. Woods’ OSU program is here: https://ise.osu.edu/human-systems-integration

Our semi-academic, semi-practical space is the Resilience in Software Foundation slack - lots of folks from all ends of the spectrum talk there about RE concepts and practical applications for how to solve things (and pet pictures). You can get access to it by joining the Resilience in Software Foundation: resilienceinsoftware.org

The program in Australia is NOT in Melbourne, it’s in Brisbane at Griffith University, you can see Sidney Dekker’s profile there: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/19027-sidney-dekker as part of the Humanities and Social Sciences school. Drew Rae is also there, and his podcast is here: https://safetyofwork.com/

https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/ and https://www.uptimelabs.io/ are very practical approaches to a lot of these things. Blackrock 3 https://www.blackrock3.com/ does training for incident command.

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