The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response
The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours. Google didn’t update the status page, but did offer a postmortem 4 days later.
post-mortems
Spirit Didn't Die From What You Think It Died From
On May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines stopped flying. Roughly 300 flights and 60,000 passengers a day were instantly orphaned. Seventeen thousand people lost their jobs. United, Delta, JetBlue, and Southwest capped rebooking fares at around $200 one way, which is the closest thing a…
A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
“” is published by Admiral Cloudberg.
Mysterious Case of JetBlue Flight That Went Into Free Fall
Why would a perfectly good plane suddenly go rogue? The answer was disturbing enough to ground 6,000 aircraft.
What Ghost Kitchens Got Wrong
Two good ideas and one bad mistake
What Caused Allbirds’ Downfall?
Why did Allbirds fail to make it in the retail market?
A college basketball coach made 418 mistakes his first year. He kept track of all of them
Thirteen years ago, Mike Neighbors dreamed up an idea to help others: He started writing down his mistakes.
Why Insect Farming Startups Are Going Bankrupt
Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.
Loot Drop - The Startup Graveyard
Explore 925+ failed startups and learn from $32.5B+ in burned venture capital. Discover why they failed, their market potential, and how to rebuild them.
What caused the large AWS outage?
On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage
Anki is already dead
what 98,000 flashcard reviews and japanese taught me about learning with llms
Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492
Six years after 41 people died aboard a Sukhoi Superjet on a Moscow runway, the full story of that horrible day can finally be told.
Acids to Ashes: The crash of Pan Am flight 160 - Admiral Cloudberg - Medium
On the 3rd of November 1973, the crew of a Pan Am cargo plane lined up to land at Boston’s Logan International Airport, struggling desperately to reach the runway as a fire raged in the cargo deck…
How to Learn from a Failed Negotiation
Turn a loss into future wins.
4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss
Learn from GitLab's 2017 incident: 300GB of data lost in seconds, but their transparent recovery is a masterclass in accountability.
Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash—Asterisk
The United States leads the world in airline safety. That’s because of the way we assign blame when accidents do happen.
Fail Better with Win/Loss Analysis
If you're in sales, you'll fail sometimes. Failing is great if you learn from why you lost deals. Win/Loss Analysis can help you fail better.
Why Did I Lose the Sale? 6 Win-Loss Analysis Questions
I’ve had the privilege of conducting “Win/Loss/No Decision Sales Cycle Analysis Studies” for leading companies including IBM, EMC, ATT, Acxiom, and PayPal. To accomplish these studies I have interviewed hundreds of C-level executives and countless mid-level managers and…
Eight disciplines problem solving
Eight Disciplines Methodology (8D) is a method or model developed at Ford Motor Company used to approach and to resolve problems, typically employed by quality engineers or other professionals. Focused on product and process improvement, its purpose is to identify, correct, and…
http://www.chubbybrain.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/
How to Write Better with The Why, What, How Framework
Three documents I write (one-pager, design doc, after-action review) and how I structure them.