“Silent Failure” is a fast, gripping tour of disasters that didn’t start with explosions—they started when alarms stayed quiet and logs lied by omission. We’ll relive the Northeast Blackout’s blind EMS, Knight Capital’s wordless trading avalanche, Equifax’s expired-cert invisibility, Buncefield’s dead overfill switch, and Uber ATG’s disabled emergency braking—then dissect why silence won: suppressed alerts, “assume-good” flags, dead printers, expired certs, and normalized deviance. You’ll leave entertained, a little rattled, and armed to ensure your next incident is noisy early—never quietly catastrophic.