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Re:Twitter was down by ryandrake on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:43PM (#20415014)
> The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer

Never understood this mentality but have seen it at many companies. Rewarding someone or some team for heroically fixing something after a catastrophic failure. Talk about misaligned incentives! Reminds me of the Cobra Effect [1]. When you reward “fixing a bad thing” you will get more of the bad thing to be fixed.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

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Re:Twitter was down by skybrian on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:53PM (#20415135)
Seems like maybe you want to reward fire fighters and also reward fire prevention?
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Re:Twitter was down by micahgoulart on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:03PM (#20415238)
boy, do i have a podcast episode for you: https://casefilepodcast.com/case-98-the-pillow-pyro/
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Re:Twitter was down by mzno on Friday July 12, 2019 @06:08PM (#20424957)
from a complete rando: thanks for posting this — will listen to it later today.
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