Podcast Alpha(@PodcastAlphaX):Richard Feynman cleared six months off his calendar to sit on the Challenger commission. Every other member waited for staff briefings. Bill Gurley @bgurley told Jason Calacanis's @Jason All-In Summit crowd that Feynman showed up at NASA facilities and started interviewing engineers before the commission ever convened in Washington. When Neil Armstrong noticed, he pulled Feynman aside: "We just evaluate. We don't investigate." Feynman kept going anyway and later forced his own findings into the final report as Appendix F. A commission seated to review something and a person who actually goes and checks it can sit at the same table and still not be doing the same job. Podcast Alpha's coverage traces Gurley's searchers-vs-blockers framework from Challenger through to the one document he says nobody in COVID ever forced open. https://t.co/6jrdmys3ba Source: All-In Podcast -

2026.09.19 22:42

Richard Feynman cleared six months off his calendar to sit on the Challenger commission. Every other member waited for staff briefings. Bill Gurley @bgurley told Jason Calacanis's @Jason All-In Summit crowd that Feynman showed up at NASA facilities and started interviewing engineers before the commission ever convened in Washington. When Neil Armstrong noticed, he pulled Feynman aside: "We just evaluate. We don't investigate." Feynman kept going anyway and later forced his own findings into the final report as Appendix F. A commission seated to review something and a person who actually goes and checks it can sit at the same table and still not be doing the same job. Podcast Alpha's coverage traces Gurley's searchers-vs-blockers framework from Challenger through to the one document he says nobody in COVID ever forced open. Source: All-In Podcast -

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2026.09.19 01:53

Bill Gurley @bgurley: the Army Corps of Engineers built the levees that failed in Hurricane Katrina. It paid an outside engineering society $1 million to help investigate itself. At Jason Calacanis's @Jason All-In Summit, Gurley walked through what happened next. The Corps paid the American Society of Civil Engineers $1 million to join its internal review, and the ASCE team got folded into the Corps' own process instead of staying separate from it. Engineering professor Raymond Seed later wrote a 42-page report to the ASCE cataloguing every place it had blocked the investigation. Paying an independent reviewer does not make the review independent. The check only holds if the reviewer's paycheck comes from somewhere else. Podcast Alpha's coverage of this talk maps the same failure across five separate catastrophes, plus where Gurley applies it to COVID. Source: All-In Podcast -