close calls and near misses in programming

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• we never talk about the close calls
• close calls are never reported
• close calls in alpinism are now sometimes recorded (close calls podcasts)
  • the sharp end
• we have PM’s, but inhererntly that’s only for things that break, we get better at fixing live problems, but we don’t get necessarily better at preventing problems
• how do we better at diagnosing close calls?