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on failed persons

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2016.09.27

The Basel definition of operational risk is this:

"Operational risk is defined as the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events."

The grammar of this has always left me wondering what a failed person is, and what to do about them.

Or perhaps they mean "failed people", as in a tribe or nation that failed. An even bigger challenge!

rand()m quote

I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young, I liked them when I was middle-age, I liked them before I was president, and I like them during president, and I like them after president.

—George W. Bush