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      <description>Last 10 notes on Systemic Failure Archive and Research</description>
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    <title>Automation Bias</title>
    <link>https://systemicfailure.org/automation-bias</link>
    <guid>https://systemicfailure.org/automation-bias</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ The tendency to treat automated output as an authoritative substitute for one's own judgement — and, at organisational scale, the mechanism by which an institution becomes constitutively unable to register that its model of the world is wrong. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Data Sources for Systemic Failure Research</title>
    <link>https://systemicfailure.org/data-sources</link>
    <guid>https://systemicfailure.org/data-sources</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ A working directory of datasets, incident databases and archives useful for researching systemic and institutional failure, from public inquiries to AI-incident repositories. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Environmental Systemic Failures in the UK</title>
    <link>https://systemicfailure.org/environmental-failures-uk</link>
    <guid>https://systemicfailure.org/environmental-failures-uk</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ A UK-focused index of systemic failures in which the failing system's relationship with the natural environment is central — pollution, water, nuclear contamination and biosecurity — read through the same systems and organisational-cognition lens as the rest of this site. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Iatrogenic Failure</title>
    <link>https://systemicfailure.org/iatrogenic-failure</link>
    <guid>https://systemicfailure.org/iatrogenic-failure</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Failure produced by the intervention meant to prevent or repair it — when the cure, acting on too simple a model of a complex system, does more harm than the disease. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Systemic Failure Archive and Research</title>
    <link>https://systemicfailure.org/</link>
    <guid>https://systemicfailure.org/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ This website is both an archive of some interesting examples of systemic failures of a variety of systems, and also some of my own research around systemic failure, cascade failures, tipping points etc. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Latent Conditions</title>
    <link>https://systemicfailure.org/latent-conditions</link>
    <guid>https://systemicfailure.org/latent-conditions</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ James Reason's distinction between active failures at the sharp end and the dormant, upstream conditions that do most of the causal work in an organisational accident — and the debate over whether that model is adequate to genuinely complex systems. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Normalisation of Deviance</title>
    <link>https://systemicfailure.org/normalisation-of-deviance</link>
    <guid>https://systemicfailure.org/normalisation-of-deviance</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ The gradual, collective process by which a departure from a safety or quality standard becomes accepted within an organisation because it is repeatedly survived — a learning function running in reverse. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Organisations as Cognitive Systems</title>
    <link>https://systemicfailure.org/organisations-as-cognitive-systems</link>
    <guid>https://systemicfailure.org/organisations-as-cognitive-systems</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ The frame that runs through this site — that an organisation is not only a collection of people who think, but is itself a system that perceives, represents, remembers, infers, decides and learns, and can fail at any of those functions. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Systemic Failures in the UK</title>
    <link>https://systemicfailure.org/systemic-failures-uk</link>
    <guid>https://systemicfailure.org/systemic-failures-uk</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ A UK-focused index of systemic and cascading failures, read through a systems and organisational-cognition lens — how institutions, infrastructures, and processes fail, and how they fail to know that they are failing. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Tight Coupling and Interactive Complexity</title>
    <link>https://systemicfailure.org/tight-coupling</link>
    <guid>https://systemicfailure.org/tight-coupling</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Charles Perrow's account of why some accidents are "normal" — expected properties of a system's structure rather than anomalies — and why the combination of complex interactions and tight coupling defeats an organisation's capacity to respond in time. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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