121: Emergency Communication with Thai Wood

March 13th, 2019 · 54 mins 30 secs

About this Episode

01:26 - Resilience Engineering and Closed-loop Communication

06:55 - Acknowledging Burnout in the Developer Community

09:31 - Professionalization and Formal Training

Nancy Leveson

17:41 - Reliability vs Resilience

20:40 - Resilience in the EMT Context

22:21 - Scene Size-up in Software

25:20 - Thai’s Superpower: The ability to remain calm in emergencies;Tech => EMT => Tech + Missing Seeing People You’re Helping

The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

32:11 - Incident Response + Studying Incident Response; Normalization of Deviance

SNAFUcatchers

40:16 - Asking Questions

Cognitive Interviewing Techniques

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Reflections:

Jessica: Part of resilience is how do you know where to get help? When to ask for help and who to ask.

John: Following up with the cognitive interview idea.

Sam: Being explicit and deliberate about thinking about process and communication as a thing that you can get better at, that you can work on, and that you can talk about.

Check out with the “Working With Other Humans” track that Sam is running at RailsConf 2019 from April 29 - May 1 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Thai: Cognitive interviewing Pokémon. Plus emotions as a state machine.

John’s Hacking Your Emotional API Talk

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