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I asked Claude to come up with a few new rules for why systems fail and dang it, they are pretty spectacular. Number 25, "Modern systems conflate efficiency with resilience" is especially great, as are 22 "System success paradoxically increases fragility" and 23 on mental models https://t.co/y4a7wDT8p2

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