In this episode of Brainwaves, Baron Schwartz and Jay Ennis -- VividCortex's CEO and VivdCortex's VP of Product Development -- join Alex to discuss some of the concepts that help engineering teams operate and build safely. Jay and Baron talk about what they aim to protect and avoid when setting up safety protocols for a team, and they discuss why some commonly held beliefs, like root cause analysis, are traps. Ideas from other industries -- such as aviation, EMT emergency reporting, and horse rearing -- lend helpful perspectives and models. www.vividcortex.com Related Links: - Baron on the "Root Cause Fallacy": https://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/07/21/root-cause-fallacy/ - The rules behind aviation Flight Levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level - A definition of "load shedding": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_Shedding - A history of human/computer automation in chess: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151201-the-cyborg-chess-players-that-cant-be-beaten - NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System: https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/report/faq.html