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Toward Ontogenetic Resilience

Cybernetic Forests • 0 implied HN points • 10 Jul 22
📖 Philosophy Resilience
  1. Stories shape systems through design and the narratives we create, offering continuity and orientation in a world filled with uncertainty.
  2. Ontogenetic Resilience proposes an adaptive identity that embraces change and uncertainty, fostering exploration and growth.
  3. Resilience in the face of constant change is compared to surfing - balancing between stability and adaptation, learning to navigate and lean into the ever-shifting currents of life.

Luật chơi

Thái | Hacker | Kỹ sư tin tặc • 0 implied HN points • 08 Jul 18
📖 Philosophy Resilience
  1. In a competition, even if the rules are unfair, it's important to keep playing until the end.
  2. Professional players must continue to give their best effort, regardless of any biases or unfairness in the game.
  3. Win or lose, the passion and dedication shown during the competition can have a powerful impact on the audience.

Guidelines for Chaos Engineering, Part 2

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 08 Sep 20
🕹 Technology Resilience
  1. Identify critical systems before introducing chaos engineering to ensure the most impact on the business.
  2. Focus on testing critical components first, particularly those dealing with state, before moving on to less critical systems.
  3. Chaos engineering is an iterative process that should be performed in non-production environments first, with an aim towards ultimately testing in production.

Guidelines for Chaos Engineering, Part 1

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 06 Jul 20
🕹 Technology Resilience
  1. Chaos testing helps understand how systems react to failure and ensures adequate monitoring for resilience.
  2. The goals of chaos testing include aligning system behavior with expectations and identifying gaps in monitoring and response capabilities.
  3. Performing chaos engineering involves defining steady-state metrics, forming hypotheses, running experiments, and adapting based on findings.
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Cloud strategies for COVID-19

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 06 Apr 20
🕹 Technology Resilience
  1. During times of high demand, clear communication and expectation setting with users is crucial for maintaining trust and loyalty.
  2. When facing unprecedented traffic spikes, focus on core functionalities and implement strategies like load shedding and graceful degradation to ensure application reliability.
  3. Effective cloud infrastructure management, such as leveraging multiple availability zones, aggressive caching, and setting limits for resources, is essential in providing a good user experience and handling fluctuating demands.

The Return (Burnout Part 6)

Notes in the Margins • 0 implied HN points • 16 Jul 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Resilience
  1. Returning to work after burnout requires a supportive environment and a commitment to self-care.
  2. Successful return after burnout involves workplace support, gradual reintegration, and personal readiness.
  3. Rebuilding resilience post-burnout demands a comprehensive approach including tailored programs and coaching to prevent relapse.

Notes from the Week - Week 24

Notes in the Margins • 0 implied HN points • 18 Jun 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Resilience
  1. Engaging in creative activities can boost mood, reduce anxiety and depression.
  2. Creativity has been linked to improved cognitive function, memory, attention, and problem-solving skills.
  3. Creativity can help develop resilience, adaptability, and social connections, leading to improved well-being.

The Happiness Advantage:

Books Unbound • 0 implied HN points • 25 Aug 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Resilience
  1. Happiness helps you succeed, not just the other way around. Being happy can make you more productive and creative, leading to better performance at work or school.
  2. Changing your mindset can help you overcome challenges. When you see problems as opportunities to grow, you’re more likely to achieve your goals.
  3. Focus on building positive habits and relationships. Creating small daily habits that improve your mood can lead to big changes in your life and work, plus strong social ties offer extra support.

#51: The sensible approach

The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd) • 0 implied HN points • 21 Oct 20
💼 Business Resilience
  1. Building sustainable business models can help companies become more resilient in uncertain times. This means they’re better able to handle changes when they happen.
  2. Investing in long-term relationships with suppliers can lead to better products and prices. Businesses like Super 8 have found that working closely with growers has great benefits.
  3. A shift in mindset is necessary for companies to embrace new ways of doing business. Being open to change and innovation helps businesses build strength during tough times.

What are the Basics of Building a Personal Climate Strategy?

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 20 Jan 25
🌞 Climate & Environment Resilience
  1. Having a personal climate strategy is crucial. If you don't have a plan for dealing with climate changes, it's hard to plan for the future.
  2. The climate crisis is already happening and will affect every aspect of our lives. We need to think about how we make choices and where we want to live going forward.
  3. There are specific steps you can take to prepare for a tough future. Learning about personal ruggedization can help you make better decisions and stay resilient.

"It Will Change the Way You Think About Planning for Your Future."

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 09 Feb 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Resilience
  1. We are entering a new era of rapid, systemic climate-driven instability that makes old planning tools unreliable.
  2. You need to take personal responsibility by building a personal climate strategy and ruggedizing your life, because governments and institutions may not provide adequate protection.
  3. A structured, step-by-step workshop can teach practical foresight tools, help you make clearer decisions, and give you a personalized roadmap and peer support for navigating this chaos.

Where does one begin?

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 06 Feb 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Resilience
  1. Begin by asking why you’re doing this and who it matters for, not by diving straight into data or products.
  2. How far ahead your horizon of concern stretches — whether years or decades — should shape the choices you make, especially for the people you care about.
  3. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions, so focus on adaptable, evolving personal strategies and on building better decision-making for uncertain futures.

What Is a Sustainable Future on a Planet in Upheaval?

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 05 Feb 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Resilience
  1. We are already headed toward massive and unprecedented climate, ecological, and societal upheavals. Preventing the worst warming is still vital, but it won't stop all the disruption.
  2. Societies must 'ruggedize' for discontinuity by building climate defenses, reworking supply chains, planning for population movements, restoring ecosystems, and shifting where and how people live. These resilience efforts need to be central to government, business, community, and personal decisions.
  3. Climate action today is primarily harm reduction and about preserving future options rather than restoring old continuity. The most sustainable goal is to pass forward the widest set of good possibilities to future generations.

We thought we had time.

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 03 Feb 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Resilience
  1. We’re in a new era of instability where climate disruption is amplified by economic, technological, geopolitical, and institutional upheavals, and the old planning tools from more stable times no longer work.
  2. Help from governments, markets, or activists is unlikely to arrive fast enough, so individuals need to take responsibility and design their own practical plans for navigating the chaos.
  3. A live, small-group Personal Climate Strategy Workshop can teach the systems patterns behind the chaos and help you turn that understanding into concrete, actionable decisions, with recorded sessions and ongoing alumni support.

Things fall apart; the maintenance schedule cannot hold.

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 29 Jan 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Resilience
  1. Assuming continuity is dangerous — climate change is creating accelerating discontinuities and tipping points, so the past is a poor guide for the future.
  2. Climate brittleness will raise maintenance needs: everyday infrastructure and systems will face accumulating small stresses that cascade into bigger failures.
  3. Societies must either work harder to keep things running, abandon places that are too costly to sustain, or invest in ruggedizing systems, and limited resources mean these choices and risks will be unevenly distributed.

Discontinuity Is Knocking on the Door. Now What?

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 12 Mar 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Resilience
  1. Climate change is accelerating and will reshape every major life decision, so people need to start planning now.
  2. You should build a personal climate strategy to spot vulnerabilities in your home, investments, and community and to make smarter decisions under uncertainty.
  3. A concise two-hour live class teaches a practical system for making that plan, includes a brief Q&A and recording, and offers a few discounted spots.