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It was a really insightful article about post-mortems, but not in the context of software engineering! It was written about post-mortems in hospitals (where the term originated from!) and it had several useful insights that were applicable to software engineering, too.
The one insight I do remember is that it said something along the lines of: "In a sufficiently mature enterprise, all failure modes are complex because all of the easy failure modes have preventative measures in place".
this is probably not the answer but it's along similar veins: an excellent talk about Three Mile Island in the context of software https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xQeXOz0Ncs
Oh, this one is even closer. I have this memory too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099cHWSbAL8
It's called "how complex systems fail" there's a paper and a talk. https://how.complexsystems.fail/
