Lorin Hochstein
@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com
Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org
I mean, if it leads to more effective written communication...
July 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I mean, if it leads to more effective written communication...
Robustness work is about enlarging the system's competence envelope, resilience work is about improving the system's future behavior when it inevitably breaches its competence envelope.
July 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Robustness work is about enlarging the system's competence envelope, resilience work is about improving the system's future behavior when it inevitably breaches its competence envelope.
I'm a fan of good documentation, but I also recognize its limits.
July 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I'm a fan of good documentation, but I also recognize its limits.
Every damn time...
June 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every damn time...
My reaction when I read about Meta trying to poach AI researchers from OpenAI with $100 million signing bonuses.
June 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My reaction when I read about Meta trying to poach AI researchers from OpenAI with $100 million signing bonuses.
Another tempting one...
June 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Another tempting one...
My general feelings about counterfactuals.
June 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
My general feelings about counterfactuals.
Current tech industry status:
June 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Current tech industry status:
The inevitability of future migration, a lesson never learned.
May 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The inevitability of future migration, a lesson never learned.
Advertise your account with a Simpsons image
May 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Advertise your account with a Simpsons image
“Yes, but which hole was the *root cause*?”
May 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Yes, but which hole was the *root cause*?”
I never appreciated how funny this Simpsons joke was until I moved to the U.S.
May 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I never appreciated how funny this Simpsons joke was until I moved to the U.S.
I’ve never understood the “constitution-in-exile” thing.
May 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’ve never understood the “constitution-in-exile” thing.
Evergreen observation, from informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...
May 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Evergreen observation, from informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...
This is how I imagine interactions go between GOP members and Trump:
April 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is how I imagine interactions go between GOP members and Trump:
U.S. markets, current status:
April 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
U.S. markets, current status:
Texting with my spouse
March 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Texting with my spouse
I searched DuckDuckGo for "ieee transactions software engineering" and the first two hits are for IEEE Xplore's staging environment, which is apparently public.
March 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I searched DuckDuckGo for "ieee transactions software engineering" and the first two hits are for IEEE Xplore's staging environment, which is apparently public.