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Feb 14, 2025 10 min

What the Microsoft Outage Reveals about Complex Systems

from The Orthogonal Bet Hosted by Lux Capital

In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman delves into the recent CrowdStrike/Microsoft outage, providing insights on how to understand this event through the lens of complexity science. The episode was inspired by Sam's very timely post in the Atlantic: ⁠"What the Microsoft Outage Reveals"⁠ Join us as Sam answers Producer ⁠Christopher Gates⁠’ questions, exploring the intricate web of factors that led to this global system failure and offering a unique perspective on navigating and preventing such crises in the future. Produced by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Christopher Gates⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music bySuno

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