How low‑fidelity cardboard models can help your team visualize complex systems, improve secure design, practice incident response, and build resilience—using nothing more than scissors, tape, and a table.
How to turn one painful outage into a reusable, action‑oriented reliability playbook—using incident stories, business constraints, and modern tools to improve operational resilience.
How a simple, analog ‘cardboard ferris wheel’ of outage stories can turn blameless postmortems into an ongoing, shared learning practice that keeps reliability visible, human, and continuously improving.
How a low-tech ‘paper switchboard’ metaphor can transform modern incident management—connecting on-call tooling, clear roles, communication, and dependency graphs into a coherent command system.
How low‑tech sandtable simulations using paper buildings and hand‑drawn traffic flows can transform your incident response, resilience, and engineering culture.
How hand‑drawn “failure portraits,” structured post‑incident reviews, and visualized uncertainty can transform weekly reliability reviews into a powerful, shared learning practice.
How to use low-tech, theatrical, paper-based simulations to rehearse production incidents, de-risk your on-call practice, and build a stronger culture of incident readiness—no laptops required.
How to design a paper‑based “incident harbor” that keeps teams aligned, calm, and effective during chaos—using metaphors, warehouse thinking, and daily dockings to build real-world reliability.
How treating your distributed system like a city—and keeping an "analog outage field notebook"—can transform how you discover, understand, and prevent hidden failures before they become real outages.
How simple analog tools—index cards, slips, and paper templates—can improve incident response, evidence handling, and on-call design more effectively than another dashboard or bot.