@jpaulreed
@jpaulreed.com
Incident response & management+human factors in software development & operations.
“How many incidents does it take to get to the center of a sociotechnical system?"
(Yes, that @jpaulreed on The Old Bird Site/Mastodon)
“How many incidents does it take to get to the center of a sociotechnical system?"
(Yes, that @jpaulreed on The Old Bird Site/Mastodon)
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One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
February 5, 2026 at 3:11 AM
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
One of my favorite features of [redacted]'s dashboards is having to remember to click "Run" when I load it.
I don't know about YOU, but when I load a dashboard, I so don't care about the up-to-date, real-world state of the data on my dashboards.
I don't know about YOU, but when I load a dashboard, I so don't care about the up-to-date, real-world state of the data on my dashboards.
February 4, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of my favorite features of [redacted]'s dashboards is having to remember to click "Run" when I load it.
I don't know about YOU, but when I load a dashboard, I so don't care about the up-to-date, real-world state of the data on my dashboards.
I don't know about YOU, but when I load a dashboard, I so don't care about the up-to-date, real-world state of the data on my dashboards.
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The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
Le voyagement est aussi affecté → www.danslescoulisses.com/ice-le-canad...
ICE : le Canadien demande à ses joueurs de ne pas sortir de l’hôtel au Minnesota
Comme vous le savez sans doute, ça brasse malheureusement pas mal au Minnesota. Avec tout ce qui se passe en lien avec la police de l’immigration et les trop nombreux décès qui en découlent…
www.danslescoulisses.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
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Unsurprisingly, @jpaulreed.com asks some very thoughtful questions for those tasked with supporting US based organizations and teams running critical systems in today's world.
jpaulreed.com/thoughts/ada...
jpaulreed.com/thoughts/ada...
Adapting to the Moment
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February 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Unsurprisingly, @jpaulreed.com asks some very thoughtful questions for those tasked with supporting US based organizations and teams running critical systems in today's world.
jpaulreed.com/thoughts/ada...
jpaulreed.com/thoughts/ada...
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this is the worst “you’ll be visited by three ghosts”
Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen on a Carribean island at Christmastime?
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
January 31, 2026 at 2:54 AM
this is the worst “you’ll be visited by three ghosts”
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pouring one out for the systems thinkers who can see the abyss and have to live with the darkness
January 30, 2026 at 12:17 AM
pouring one out for the systems thinkers who can see the abyss and have to live with the darkness
X: You talk about planes a lot, Paul; what’s your take on this whole Canadian plane “decertification” thing?
Me: I am very confident Canada can figure out how to decertify Boeings.
Me: I am very confident Canada can figure out how to decertify Boeings.
January 30, 2026 at 3:09 AM
X: You talk about planes a lot, Paul; what’s your take on this whole Canadian plane “decertification” thing?
Me: I am very confident Canada can figure out how to decertify Boeings.
Me: I am very confident Canada can figure out how to decertify Boeings.
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Reticulating Splines
Woah this NYC isometric map (looks just like Simcity 2000) is blowing my mind! cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
January 29, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Reticulating Splines
Blogged: Adapting to the Moment
(Or "What incidents, adaptive capacity, and the unraveling of 275 years of American Democracy have to do with each other...")
jpaulreed.com/thoughts/ada...
(Or "What incidents, adaptive capacity, and the unraveling of 275 years of American Democracy have to do with each other...")
jpaulreed.com/thoughts/ada...
Adapting to the Moment
jpaulreed.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Blogged: Adapting to the Moment
(Or "What incidents, adaptive capacity, and the unraveling of 275 years of American Democracy have to do with each other...")
jpaulreed.com/thoughts/ada...
(Or "What incidents, adaptive capacity, and the unraveling of 275 years of American Democracy have to do with each other...")
jpaulreed.com/thoughts/ada...
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The ayatollahs have embarrassed the President by executing more Iranian civilians than we have executed American civilians.
by Pete Hegseth
by Pete Hegseth
January 26, 2026 at 4:23 AM
The ayatollahs have embarrassed the President by executing more Iranian civilians than we have executed American civilians.
by Pete Hegseth
by Pete Hegseth
I’ve been told this type of language is… uncomfortably forward for a Minnesotan
January 26, 2026 at 7:15 AM
I’ve been told this type of language is… uncomfortably forward for a Minnesotan
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The two Minnesota murders could provide Trump with a welcome distraction from Epstein and affordability.
by Chris Cillizza
by Chris Cillizza
January 26, 2026 at 3:54 AM
The two Minnesota murders could provide Trump with a welcome distraction from Epstein and affordability.
by Chris Cillizza
by Chris Cillizza
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Damn proud of Minnesota.
January 26, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Damn proud of Minnesota.
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WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT, REUTERS?
WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN SOMEONE KEEPS TELLING SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE TRUTH WHEN THEY KNOW IT’S NOT THE TRUTH?
WHAT IS THAT CALLED? USE YOUR WORDS
WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN SOMEONE KEEPS TELLING SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE TRUTH WHEN THEY KNOW IT’S NOT THE TRUTH?
WHAT IS THAT CALLED? USE YOUR WORDS
Federal officials dig in on Minneapolis shooting narrative despite video evidence reut.rs/3YZ1dvp
Federal officials dig in on Minneapolis shooting narrative despite video evidence
Trump administration officials defended the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by immigration agents even as video evidence contradicted their version of events and tensions grew between local law enforcement and federal officers.
reut.rs
January 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM
WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT, REUTERS?
WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN SOMEONE KEEPS TELLING SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE TRUTH WHEN THEY KNOW IT’S NOT THE TRUTH?
WHAT IS THAT CALLED? USE YOUR WORDS
WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN SOMEONE KEEPS TELLING SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE TRUTH WHEN THEY KNOW IT’S NOT THE TRUTH?
WHAT IS THAT CALLED? USE YOUR WORDS
This moment is why local daily newspapers matter.
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
January 24, 2026 at 5:39 AM
This moment is why local daily newspapers matter.
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The NYT reports that Air Force One has turned around due to a situation officials are describing as “creature on the wing”
January 21, 2026 at 5:11 AM
The NYT reports that Air Force One has turned around due to a situation officials are describing as “creature on the wing”
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ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 AM
ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this
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So, this is what it felt like to live in Rome in 37-41 CE.
January 19, 2026 at 6:09 AM
So, this is what it felt like to live in Rome in 37-41 CE.
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It looks like this (yes, I made this, and yes, it's terrible)
January 18, 2026 at 4:29 AM
It looks like this (yes, I made this, and yes, it's terrible)
You can tell a lot about a gay by how they obtain the new episode of Ru Paul’s Drag Race to show for the watching party they’re hosting
January 17, 2026 at 4:12 AM
You can tell a lot about a gay by how they obtain the new episode of Ru Paul’s Drag Race to show for the watching party they’re hosting
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I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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If they start talking about their feelings? Out loud? Shit is dire
Check in on your MN friends. Ask how they're doing. If they say:
"Pretty good, you?" They're probably ok.
"Just fine, howryou?" They're struggling, exhausted, hanging on but close to the edge.
"Oh, doin ok" Send help. The situation is desperate.
"Pretty good, you?" They're probably ok.
"Just fine, howryou?" They're struggling, exhausted, hanging on but close to the edge.
"Oh, doin ok" Send help. The situation is desperate.
January 13, 2026 at 2:44 AM
If they start talking about their feelings? Out loud? Shit is dire
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Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.
January 9, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.
This was an unmistakable, heavily repeated theme in Isaacson's biography of Musk: recounting stories of PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, Musk would frame his arguments as "We need to do [what I say] or we'll die. It's all over."
It's so intellectually anemic, and yet... that apparently doesn't matter.
It's so intellectually anemic, and yet... that apparently doesn't matter.
One of the more surreal patterns in Trump's insane claims is that he loves insisting some catastrophic outcome will occur unless we immediately do X, without explaining why nothing bad happened for 250 years when we weren't doing X.
Trump: "If we don't take Greenland, you're gonna have Russia or China as your next door neighbor. That's not going to happen."
January 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM
This was an unmistakable, heavily repeated theme in Isaacson's biography of Musk: recounting stories of PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, Musk would frame his arguments as "We need to do [what I say] or we'll die. It's all over."
It's so intellectually anemic, and yet... that apparently doesn't matter.
It's so intellectually anemic, and yet... that apparently doesn't matter.
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