Systems Fail When They Solve the Wrong Problem
Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 4
Publish date: 2026-07-10
Many engineering projects are not defeated by problems the team cannot solve.
They are defeated
complex-systems
Iteration Is the First Production Force
Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 3
Many engineering teams can build the first version of a system. Fewer teams can keep changing it safely after reality
The Entropy of Complex Systems
Complex systems do not usually fail because of one bad line of code. They fail because the number of possible states grows faster than the organization's ability to understand and control them.