When you build and operate in high-stakes, chaotic environments, you have to plan for failure. The Stoics had a name for thinking ahead about this: premeditatio malorum—the deliberate contemplation of ...

The September 2025 ransomware attack on European airports left tens of thousands of passengers stranded. Reuters reported that ENISA confirmed a cyberattack on a third-party boarding system provider ...

It happened again: yet another cascading failure of technology. In recent years we’ve had internet blackouts, aviation-system debacles, and now a widespread outage due to an issue affecting Microsoft ...

If you’ve talked to an engineering nerd or a tech bro recently, you’ve probably heard the phrase “fail fast, fail often” a lot. The idea is simple: Value trying and learning from failure rather than ...

I’ve learned the hard way that the capability of enterprise AI changes when you’re building the product. The same workflow ...

Let’s talk about a cybersecurity attack that’s been making waves: TEE.fail. TEE stands for Trusted Execution Environment. Sounds reassuring, right? But here’s the kicker: exactly what a TEE is, and ...

The heating and cooling system inside a home quietly controls comfort every single day, yet many households give it attention only after disaster strikes. A furnace stops on a bitter winter night, or ...