I looked at a minutely detailed table of how long to steam potatoes in the Instant Pot and said, "I'm not reading all that; 8 minutes seems good." (for anyone at Papers in Systems who listened to me talk about my experience of how people choose initial configuration options)
Join us in discussing Meadows’ “Leverage Points”? ‘“This is a HUGE NEW SYSTEM people are inventing!” I said to myself. “They haven’t the SLIGHTEST IDEA how this complex structure will behave,” myself said back to me. “It’s almost certainly an example of cranking the system in the wrong direction”’
Ruth Malan@ruthmalan.bsky.social · 2w agoNext in our #PapersInSystems discussions: Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System." When: Mon, Aug 3, 2026, 1PM - 2PM Eastern Time (US/Canada) (19:00 CEST) The reading is at: donellameadows.org/archives/lev... More info/sign up (free, of course): ti.to/bredemeyer/p...
Here’s the paradox: – Systems regularly face challenges they weren’t designed to handle – Yet we keep using reductionism—treating entities as just sums of parts while ignoring how those parts interact
Join us in discussing Meadows’ “Leverage Points”? ‘“This is a HUGE NEW SYSTEM people are inventing!” I said to myself. “They haven’t the SLIGHTEST IDEA how this complex structure will behave,” myself said back to me. “It’s almost certainly an example of cranking the system in the wrong direction”’
Ruth Malan@ruthmalan.bsky.social · 2w agoNext in our #PapersInSystems discussions: Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System." When: Mon, Aug 3, 2026, 1PM - 2PM Eastern Time (US/Canada) (19:00 CEST) The reading is at: donellameadows.org/archives/lev... More info/sign up (free, of course): ti.to/bredemeyer/p...
Next in our #PapersInSystems discussions: Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System." When: Mon, Aug 3, 2026, 1PM - 2PM Eastern Time (US/Canada) (19:00 CEST) The reading is at: donellameadows.org/archives/lev... More info/sign up (free, of course): ti.to/bredemeyer/p...
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
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interesting discussion ahead; join us next week?
Ruth Malan@ruthmalan.bsky.social · 2mo agoNext #PapersInSystems July 8 (shifting from "first Monday" to Wednesday for this one), 1-2pm Eastern Time (US/Canada). Remote. Arty Starr and "Theory of Troubleshooting": dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Info/sign up: ti.to/bredemeyer/t...
System Design and Software Architecture Workshop: Oct 5-7 and Oct 12-14, 2026 at 11 am - 3:30 pm Eastern Time (US/Canada). Remote (on Zoom) More info/enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/s... Preview material: Systems and System Design Overview (pdf): www.ruthmalan.com/systems/2025...
Next #PapersInSystems July 8 (shifting from "first Monday" to Wednesday for this one), 1-2pm Eastern Time (US/Canada). Remote. Arty Starr and "Theory of Troubleshooting": dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Info/sign up: ti.to/bredemeyer/t...
Theory of Troubleshooting: The Developer’s Cognitive Experience of Overcoming Confusion | ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
This paper introduces a Theory of Troubleshooting that is rooted in cognitive science. This theory helps software developers explain the challenges they face and the project risks that emerge as troubleshooting becomes difficult. We define troubleshooting ...
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#elbsides2026 is over. I took #sketchnotes on the conference day. While this activity helps me focus in the moment and memorize a talk better, the resulting notes are also great to share. So here they are from @elbsides.bsky.social: mastodon.social/@lisihocke/1... 1/2
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#elbsides2026 is over. I took #sketchnotes on the conference day. While this activity helps me focus in the moment and memorize a talk better, the resulting notes are also great to share. So here they...
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Published: Beyond the Shades of Conway's Law - Foundations: The Origin & The Mirroring Principle How the communities of Product Design and Organisation Design independently made similar observations to Conway's Law, introducing The Mirroring Principle. thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...
Beyond the Shades of Conway's Law - Foundations: The Origin & The Mirroring Principle
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Ruth Malan@ruthmalan.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor the Monday, June 1 #PapersInSystems discussion: - Container Differences Exchanges Model, which Don Gray has used with organizations and Don will lead the discussion - Decision KP Maps, created by @roundcrisis.com and discussion will be led by Andrea Info/Enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/s...
Excited to discuss Knowledge Power (KP) Maps and the CDE Model tomorrow (June 1)! Thinking I’ll bring Rich Pictures (in memory of Peter Checkland) to the “other conversation scaffolds” part of the discussion. #PapersInSystems
Ruth Malan@ruthmalan.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor the Monday, June 1 #PapersInSystems discussion: - Container Differences Exchanges Model, which Don Gray has used with organizations and Don will lead the discussion - Decision KP Maps, created by @roundcrisis.com and discussion will be led by Andrea Info/Enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/s...
#PapersInSystems discussions are by the community, for the community. Where community is formed around systems-informed design. Always grateful to the folk who lead the discussions, and who participate in them, deepening the learning for all of us with insights and connections to other work.
Ruth Malan@ruthmalan.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor the Monday, June 1 #PapersInSystems discussion: - Container Differences Exchanges Model, which Don Gray has used with organizations and Don will lead the discussion - Decision KP Maps, created by @roundcrisis.com and discussion will be led by Andrea Info/Enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/s...
For the Monday, June 1 #PapersInSystems discussion: - Container Differences Exchanges Model, which Don Gray has used with organizations and Don will lead the discussion - Decision KP Maps, created by @roundcrisis.com and discussion will be led by Andrea Info/Enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/s...
Welp we had a crazy bananas year last year and basically won the lottery of direct support tours twice But guess what my ass has been humbled and we are ready to DIY it tf up this spring as god intended!! I just finally crossed into the EXCITED stage from the "this is gonna be a disaster" stage
Was this students box in which she adorned the exterior with eyes from the book and quotes on seeing and then had cut two eyes into the box which when you looked through revealed inner worlds, a dark one representing start of the book and bright sky for the ending. So cool, I was so touched!
Indeed, come join Tailscale’s security team where we are building the future of everything (including everything that AI runs on)
Patrick O'Doherty@patrickod.com · 3mo agoPSA: if you want takes like this on the regular straight from the source come join my team at Tailscale job-boards.greenhouse.io/tailscale/jo...
I got a kind note from an English teacher who’d been looking for ways to analyze images in comics & found my resource page on my visual analysis/annotation project. It was lovely to receive because a) it wasn’t ai spam & b) a reminder of why I share all this stuff spinweaveandcut.com/visual-analy...
Europe, this is wonderful! An orientation to collaborative co-creation of the experience runs through it — yes, it’s Open Space, with years of learning how to do that beautifully!
SoCraTes DE@socrates-conference.de · 4mo agoOur lottery is open! You can now apply for your ticket for SoCraTes 2026, an extended weekend unconference with 200+ crafters and a training day with well-renowned trainers. The first drawing will happen on May 1st. Good luck and hopefully see you in Soltau! www.socrates-conference.de
Hello blue sky dot com! We are going on tour again this spring! Playing with @thelastarizona.bsky.social @walteretc.bsky.social and many more friends We can’t wait to see your faces again! Please tell all your friends, tell your mom, tell your pet lizard linktr.ee/pacingmusic
Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...
That tree guy 𓅃@somearborist.bsky.social · 4mo agoNow that they’re safe on the ground we.. ocean, I can make a joke OMG ARTEMIS IS IN TROUBLE WE’RE GETTING REPORTS OF A GIANT CAT BATTING THEM OUT OF THE SKY OH THE HUMANITY
I just learned (belatedly) about Darren Raven's Lecture-Zines: "daily Instagram series... where I share 12 x pages/images/collages/texts, inspired by 20 years of learning and teaching in higher education" — about methods, tools, experiments, etc. I love these....
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