Small Details, Global Changes: The Yiddishkeit of CrowdStrike's Outage
Tech Tribe Dispatch #260
💡 Think:
This morning major airlines have grounded their flights, medical systems and banks are down and other critical infrastructure have been affected by a mass IT outage for Windows users. The outage was caused by software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.
A few missing lines of a code, a misplaced comma or the like, have been able to bring large swaths of our global society to its knees.
There’s a lesson in this moment. At times we can view our actions, our impact on the world, as beyond grasp.
’What change can I, a mere limited human tethered by my limitations, make in the world around me?’
Others may reverse the question, becoming flippant and viewing the value of what we do as immaterial.
’What difference does it make if I don’t do more. Surely those missing details won’t disrupt some vast cosmic scheme.’
Throughout the Summer, there is a custom to study Pirkei Avot, the Ethics of our Fathers.
The instruction in Avot, to “Know what is above you1” takes on new meaning in Chasidic thought.
“‘Know that everything above’ all that transpires in the spiritual realms is ‘from you,’ dependent on your conduct,” teaches Rabbi Dovber of Mezritch2. Each of us has the potential to influence even the most elevated spiritual realms.”
Our actions of critical importance to the cosmic scheme - the smallest positive move - or Heaven forfend the opposite - creates a ripple effect that can set of changes of global importance.
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Cited in Or Torah al Aggados Chazal, p. 112b