Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System, USENIX ATC ‘19.The engineering of implementing ACLs at Google scale.

A Crucial Estimate Relived (1964), Sheman Kent’s post-mortem analysis of “his greatest mistake”, the prediction three weeks before the Cuban missile crisis that Russia would be unlikely to station missiles in Cuba that could reach the US. A great introduction to intelligence analysis as well as a good example of how to analyse and think through a failure.

Death of a Hypothesis, “destruction of an interesting hypothesis is often as important a part of our trade as its confirmation.”.