Post-Mortem: Losing Money At 36k-Feet Above Sea Level & How Not To

An all-rounded guide to independent Quant's loss-prevention, error management, logistics, DevOps, and related.

Picture this: you're about to board a 10-hour flight. As you board the plane (or maybe some time waiting at the gate), a notification pops up in your pocket. You're busy with other things, so you ignore it and forget about it (in fact, you're used to ignoring notifications because you thought at one point that's the only healthy way to approach them). Y…