Episode 24 - The most dangerous outages start as “Small, Safe Projects”

Thursday Think Bites · May 21, 2026 · 2m · transcript

Episode 24 - The most dangerous outages start as “Small, Safe Projects”

This weekend we accidentally cut my neighbor’s internet.

Not metaphorically.

Literally.

My husband and I rented a motorized tiller to place stepping stones in our yard.

Ten minutes in, the machine caught something.

We stopped.

Looked down.

A cable.

Cut clean through.

Our internet was fine.

But our neighbor’s wasn’t.

And that’s when it hit me.

We thought we were doing a small project.

No risk.

No dependencies.

But there was a cable we didn’t know existed.

And I realized something.

This happens in technology projects all…