The Mind of the Maker- Part 5: The Automation Paradox: How Boeing's MCAS System Exploited Pilot Trust5 January 2026·2013 words·10 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Boeing 737 MAX Automation-Bias Skill-Decay MCAS-Failure Pilot-Training Human-Automation Systems Thinking Leadership and Crisis
The Mind of the Maker- Part 4: The Sunk Cost Bridge: Tacoma Narrows and the Engineering Gambler's Fallacy4 January 2026·1772 words·9 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Tacoma-Narrows Sunk-Cost-Fallacy Confirmation-Bias Bridge-Failure Engineering Psychology Decision Making Disaster Analysis Decision-Making and Bias
The Mind of the Maker- Part 3: The Bureaucracy of Denial: Chernobyl and the System That Couldn't Say Stop3 January 2026·1719 words·9 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Chernobyl Organizational-Silence Authoritative-Deference Hierarchical-Failure Nuclear-Safety System-Design Disaster Analysis Systems Thinking
The Mind of the Maker- Part 2: The Certainty Trap: Challenger and the Deadly Cost of Overconfidence2 January 2026·1690 words·8 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Challenger Overconfidence-Bias Groupthink Engineering Psychology O-Ring-Erosion Organizational Failure Disaster Analysis Leadership and Crisis
The Mind of the Maker- Part 1: The Illusion of Invulnerability: How the Titanic's Designers Dismissed the Iceberg Threat1 January 2026·1297 words·7 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Titanic Normalization of Deviance Expert-Blind-Spot Cognitive-Bias Engineering Psychology Design-Failures Disaster Analysis Decision-Making and Bias
The Mind of the Maker: Psychology of Engineering Failure1 January 2026·1268 words·6 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Engineering Psychology Cognitive Bias in Design Normalization of Deviance Engineering Failure Analysis Human Factors Engineering Organizational Psychology System-Design Safety Culture Decision-Making and Bias Disaster Analysis Systems Thinking
