connections is a TV documentary that was very expensive to make and was the history of science. Burke is the guy who did it and he was in Britain it was BBC.

History flow is show not as a straight line but more a flow of events, and new technology is often a collection of existing tech used in a novel way.

We are all in a web of technology that we don't even realize. The first and last episode of the documentary series explore these kinds of dependencies. The power outage of the north east. Last episode is called Yesterday Tomorrow and You.

https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e01

History is about story telling, and post mortems are telling us the history of an event or the story.

LISA16 and stuff - Telling the story is very important. 

Problem Statement : competing issues complexity versus accessibility cause trouble in telling the story.
Because of this problem we provide too much data into a template and no one wants to read it.  Think of it like Write only memory. 

Paisley scottland and paisley pattern.

Hindsight bias is one of the big things that come up in postmortems. 

A few tips on making it easier to read

  - Avoid Jargon, or at least translate it into plain language
  - Images and GIFs are helpful when used sparringly.
  - Don't recite a litany of events. 

Common pitfalls 

  - Avoid putting the cart before the horse. 
    - Collect the information first, and then put the story together. 
    - Building the narrative first imparts biases 
  - Don't be the only perspective, get others perspectives.
 
 Tips

  - Start with a timeline. Just what events, not how or why these are where biases creep in.
  - Real life stories don't fit the three act narrative everytime. Beginning Middle End can help but don't use it as a tepmlate

Highlight suprrising connections.

Write from the perspective of people who lived through the moment, provide enough context so that the incident complexity is accounted for. Include ways to get more info.