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title: GameDay
description: Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks where Jesse Robbins discusses GameDay.
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last_updated: 2026-05-24
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# GameDay

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks where Jesse Robbins discusses GameDay.

## [Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/resilience-engineering-learning-embrace-failure-acm-queue.md)

*2012-09-12*

Jesse Robbins (Amazon), Kripa Krishnan (Google), and John Allspaw (Etsy) discuss how they built organizations that deliberately trigger failure to get stronger: powering off data centers, running 96-hour disaster simulations, and transforming blame cultures into learning cultures.

## [Changing Culture & Being a Force for Awesome](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/velocity-2012-changing-culture-force-awesome-oreilly.md)

*2012-06-28*

My 2012 Velocity talk on changing engineering culture from the inside. Start small, build champions, use metrics to create confidence, exploit compelling events.

## [Five Whys: Try to Learn a Dollar's Worth of Lesson for Every One You Spend in Failure](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/five-whys-jesse-robbins-quote-venturehacks.md)

*2008-11-17*

Eric Ries quoted me in his Venture Hacks guide to Five Whys: try to learn a dollar's worth of lesson for every dollar spent in failure. The line came from Amazon GameDay practice.

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