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Chad Todd

@ctoddkicker1.bsky.social
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JC Believer, Husband, Father, Daughter Soccer Dad, MSc Human Factors & Systems Safety-Lund Univ, MBA

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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 21/11/2025
Seeing more reports and industry players blaming code reviews for slowing down the quick development done with AI. It's unclear whether anyone's asking if this is just moving the cognitive bottleneck of "understanding what's happening" around. "Add AI to the reviews" seems to be the end goal here.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Had the fun of being a guest on the This is Fine! podcast last week. Hot take - I don't think you ever *really* put an incident "on hold", not fully. Does that still have value? Give it a listen! youtu.be/qh0Wy3uB0yw
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Incident Status: On Hold w/special guest Will Gallego
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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Does anyone have first-hand experience with using an AI agent that has “participated” in the response to an actual incident in a genuinely diagnostic — or otherwise contextually-specific way?
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My dreams are to move through space and time until the end.
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Steven Shorrock @stevenshorrock.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Please Help to Save Beau’s Vision This is a friend of my daughter's. She is studying law and will lose her vision if she cannot access treatment only available in the US. www.gofundme.com/f/save-beaus...
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Donate to Save Beau’s Vision -treatment fund to access tovorafenib, organised by Emma Johnston
My name is Emma and I’m Beau Johnston’s mum. We are in a race a… Emma Johnston needs your support for Save Beau’s Vision -treatment fund to access tovorafenib
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Random question: Do people really have dreams they want to achieve after age 45? Career or Personal?
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 04/05/2025
Incident data I'd like to see: how effective were the completed action items that were implemented in the wake of previous incidents? How often did they actually help prevent incidents? How often did they end up making things harder?
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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
1. PEOPLE keep things working. 2. When things break down, PEOPLE work to make the consequences much less than they might have been otherwise. Both dynamics are, for the most part, invisible to management. (via @lauramaguire.bsky.social's dissertation)
As Richard Cook notes, in reflecting on the data collected from the SNAFU Catchers Consortium:
"It's hard to know who is monitoring the system, who is looking at things, and who is available.
We know for certain in (some organizations) that there is a pretty well defined group of people who are in high-frequency update mode more or less continuously while awake. This is a huge contributor to reducing the costs of coordination and it is invisible to everyone and therefore not on any dashboard." (Cook, personal communication)
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Anybody know what creates the internals of a person to just say.. Let’s scorch this motherfer! Fight or Flight?
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
“If we wait until we feel ready to take on a new challenge, we might never pursue it at all. There may not come a day when we wake up and suddenly feel prepared. We become prepared by taking the leap anyway.” - Hidden Potential
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
How’s it going?
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I wear shorts when it’s below 32F. Heck I wore shorts to Walmart and it was 19F. I just wear a coat and go in shorts. Kinda weird but my legs don’t get cold.
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Who and what determines a best practice? A humans subjective perspective.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Christmas shirt thoughts…🤩
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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
In 2015, I attended my first Resilience Engineering Symposium. I felt excited and nervous sharing our domain of software with such accomplished audience. A decade later, I’m part of a fast-growing community of others in software passionate about RE, committed to creating a better future.
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resilienceinsoftware.org @resilienceinsoftware.org · 20/12/2024
Introducing the Resilience in Software Foundation: a multi-disciplinary group interested in networking with and learning from each other's unique experiences, and helping to disseminate their knowledge to the broader software industry as a whole. resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1092580
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Introducing the Resilience in Software Foundation
Software failures are inevitable. No matter how hard we try, we can’t make our systems flawless, nor can we predict every possible problem. The systems we’re building today are beyond the mental model...
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
In the end of all of it. I ended up with nothing. Par for the course.
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I’d like to be <fill in the blank>
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Steven Shorrock @stevenshorrock.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Are you an airline pilot or air traffic controller diagnosed as autistic* or ADHD? If so, and if you’d be willing to have a chat as a basis for an article and talk on neurodivergence and diagnosis, please DM me or contact[at]humanisticsystems.com
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I’m pretty spicy about work. Ready to scorch the leadership.
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 17/12/2024
Tired: default to paste with formatting Wired: default to paste without formatting Inspired: default to paste without formatting, but preserving hyperlinks
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I’m falling on language use here a bit from the incident writeup when the statement is made “Monitoring a deployment and reverting an offending change is generally straightforward…” Is it though? What makes it so straightforward? Great writeup Lorin!
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Chris Thorburn @cbthorburn.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
SIMPLY HAVING A
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Carl Horsley @carlhorsley.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Human error is a starting point for exploring an event, not a final cause. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hmnzs-man...
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Watch: Damning report reveals cause of HMNZS Manawanui's sinking off Samoa
The interim Court of Inquiry’s report blames incident on 'human error'.
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
👇🔥
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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Repeating from past years: This week is significant. To those of you who are on-call during this week and next, who are schlepping your laptop to Thanksgiving, who will have 2nd thoughts about that glass of wine or cocktail this Thursday or next Sunday night…
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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
…who know the exact location and schedule of their teammates this week, who gave out land-line numbers to their teammates *just in case*, who knows that if everything goes smoothly, only a few others will have any idea what went into that being even a remote possibility…
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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
who worries that if it *doesn't* go smoothly, that "heads" might "roll," whose spouse or partner shares in the slightly-higher-level-of-anxiety this time of year brings... Know that we at @adaptivecapacity.bsky.social see you, understand you, and are thinking about you. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤
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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Meaningful learning from incidents requires expertise that most organizations do not have — but these skills can be learned! We're getting a head start on 2025 with a workshop series on Incident Analysis. www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/incident-ana...
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Incident Analysis Workshop Series
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/11/2024
This story knocked the wind out of me and i hope esquire paid this man. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Re: Merch - Yes, please
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I belong to this club. It’s Fab if you haven’t join! 😉 “I am a card-carrying member of the “no root cause” club”
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I ponder what ‘misconfiguration’ means internally at Cloudflare. It tends to substitute ‘human error’.
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Single cup coffee Advent calendar.
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
What is risk? Emergent? Laying around to be found?
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
What is exhausting you about working in tech?
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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 21/11/2024
The vibes are off everywhere these days and bullies are emboldened and ascendant. Opposing that kind of behavior is the right thing to do, and that’s enough of a reason to do it. That said let me try to argue that siding with bullies is an obviously idiotic business decision.
A presentation slide titled "the 'frontend/backend/etc is easy' flywheel of dipshit garbage," or "how to be stupid while feeling smart." 

The flywheel is depicted as a cycle between 1) being a big jerk (where you limit the careers of others, and demotivate the people you have), 2) observing the results (that the strongest people leave, those left perform less well because they're job hunting, and that the new hires are always starting over) and then 3) reinforcing the organization's prejudices (avoiding introspection, and convincing leaders that your behavior is a necessary evil to whip things into shape).
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 17/11/2024
Successful complex systems are always janky. Just ask a biologist.
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
What is your greatest professional accomplishment?
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Steven Shorrock @stevenshorrock.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Seven Threats to New Safety Movements: 4) Dogmatism humanisticsystems.com/2024/11/01/s...
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Seven Threats to New Safety Movements: 4) Dogmatism
Dogmatism is characterised by the expression of opinion as fact, or the tendency to assert something as true (a proposed hypothesis, principle, law, etc.), without consideration of evidence, or the…
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
@chanaltodd.bsky.social is here if you want to follow her.
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Steven Shorrock @stevenshorrock.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I’m here.
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Carl Horsley @carlhorsley.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Really looking forward to talking about “The Future of Patient Safety: from human error to system safety”. Come join the conversation peanutevents.com.au/monash/hf202...
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Monash-hf2025-Welcome - Peanut Events
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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 04/11/2024
Finally put together my rant around severities for incidents, and why we instead went for incident types at work. Incidents boundary object across an org, and descriptive types play that role better than a scale (SEVs) when interpreted by many parts of the org. www.honeycomb.io/blog/against...
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Against Incident Severities and in Favor of Incident Types
In this post, SRE Fred Hebert goes over why we decided to choose incident types instead of incident severities for incident response.
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Beverage types?
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 01/11/2024
If only we were as good at predicting future outcomes as we are at convincing ourselves of the predictability of past outcomes!
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
how.complexsystems.fail
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How Complex Systems Fail
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Chad Todd @ctoddkicker1.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
It’s remembrance day of the simple country doctor Richard I. Cook❤️❤️. We miss you!! www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2022/09/12/r...
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The Career, Accomplishments, and Impact of Richard I. Cook: A Life in Many Acts
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