Paper Club: Two Years Before the Mast w/special guest eric dobbs

Mitchell Hashimoto’s post on leaving Github: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

The Reddit post on Github’s availability historically (that we find questionable): https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1rnvhs9/githubs_historic_downtime_scraped_and_plotted/

A reminder, the Messy 9 are: congestion, cascade, conflict, lag, saturation, friction, tempo, surprise, tangles

We have sometimes loved his stuff, but Gergely is annoying us with these posts: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-is-github-still-best-for?r=78c7k&utm_medium=email

https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2048017382036082706

You can find the RISF store with Hindsight Bias merch here: https://www.bonfire.com/store/risf/

You can find a copy of Richard Cook’s Two Years Before the Mast at Lorin’s Blog: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/twoyearsbeforethemast.pdf

A reminder, Richard Cook’s How Complex Systems Fail can be found at http://how.complexsystems.fail

Some writing on the 1996 Annenberg conference: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351953417_Coming_Together_The

Folk models paper (not by Woods, by Dekker and Hollnagel), which is specifically targeting Situational Awareness as being a folk model: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10111-003-0136-9

Some stuff about SNAFU Catchers: https://www.snafucatchers.com/

And https://snafucatchers.github.io/