The list#
No affiliate links, no rankings. Just what stuck.
- Thinking in Systems — Meadows
- The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error — Dekker
- Debugging — Agans
- Drift Into Failure — Dekker
- Site Reliability Engineering — Google
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From systems thinking to the surprisingly useful psychology of error.
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