One of the weird things about history, is that we see it from the wrong end. Thus our idea of fascists, tend to be people in sharp uniforms, marching and running concentration camps. 1/3

What if you could ditch the prepared slides and adapt your talk to the audience in real time? That's what I got to experiment with yesterday at the Frontify software talks meetup in St. Gallen. My talk was about technical leadership and facilitating better architectural decision-making. Instead ->

Super sad that @andrewhl.bsky.social can't join us and also happy we get to collaborate with @kenny.weave-it.org talking about "The paradox or polarity between decentralised and centralised decision-making" See you there

We scheduled a new session with Andrew Harmel-Law on anarchist thought & socio-technical design. A look at alternatives to top-down hierarchy for building better teams. 📅 23 Sept at 19:00 NZST #DDD #SocioTechnical buff.ly/Bmvoiwe #DomainDrivenDesign #SocioTechnicalSystems #SoftwareArchitecture

You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual. That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.

We've been putting some much-needed love into our virtual DDD community! We're evolving beyond just Domain-Driven Design to become the worldwide online community for designing software to solve complex business problems, organised in a decentralised way. -->

Bridge business needs and IT solutions! @kenny.weave-it.org & Evelyn Van Kelle share facilitation techniques for sustainable design. Watch their talk now and subscribe for more on collaborative design! youtu.be/xOHax5k_wJo #AmABerlin

📜 Missed the gathering at JavaZone, or wish to relive its glory? Fear not — the scrolls of wisdom (talks) will soon be unveiled on our Vimeo forum: vimeo.com/javazone Ave JavaZone! 🏛️

Recording of my intro talk on systems thinking at @javazone.bsky.social earlier today. In Norwegian this time. The longer English version will be available from DDD Europe soon, I hope. vimeo.com/1115921379 #systemsThinking #OpenSystemsTheory #JavaZone

It's strange to think that patriarchal norms can affect the way we build software, but they do. I'm happy to share that the article my wife, Vanessa, and I wrote has been published in the @nljug.bsky.social Java magazine. It was our first time writing an article together, and it was...

With @kenny.weave-it.org and @andrewhl.bsky.social we are creating a series about our stories on facilitating software architecture. How to move towards decentralisation no matter how your organisation operates (because it might just improve things) We would love your stories too, questions welcome

Talked about “socio-technical API patterns” at #JavaZone today and the recording is already available! vimeo.com/1115443700?f...

Together with @roundcrisis.com and @andrewhl.bsky.social, I’ve launched a new series on Facilitating Software Architecture and Design. We’ll share practical ways to decentralize architecture, no matter your role or context. Curious why you’d want to do that? The first episode is out now.

All roads once led to Rome… tomorrow, they all lead to NOVA Spektrum! After a full day of hands-on workshops, JavaZone 2025 continues with the main conference — talks, expo, and a legendary AweZone 🎉 📅 Sept 3–4 📍 Messeveien 6, 2004 Lillestrøm 2025.javazone.no/en

Looking forward to doing my new systems thinking talk again at the @javazone.bsky.social conference on Thursday. In Norwegian this time. We'll look at alternatives to the analytical method, to reductionism and determinism that are not well-suited to complex social systems. Harmful even. #JavaZone

Highly recommend spending half an hour on this talk by @chrissimon.au on the bulshit that LLMs produce. Yup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bF_... #AI #LLM #ChatGPT

Loved the keynote from @chrissimon.au at #Programmable2025 intriguing titled "AI is a hype-fuelled dumpster fire that will burn down the planet and get you thrown in gaol" discussing #AIethics, #AIbias, and #AIrisks

No, Your Domains and Bounded Contexts Don’t Map 1 on 1. It sounds clean and logical, but it’s wrong. Read about it in my latest article: verraes.net/2025/08/doma...

Not all men, but almost every time an act of violence is committed, it's by a man. For women who feel unsafe, "not all men" doesn't help—it's always a man who makes them feel that way. I understand why....

Time to talk about changing how we approach software architecture! Because, honestly, the usual ways often hold teams back and make things worse. But making the switch can be tough!

The Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast with @trond.hjorteland.com is now on YouTube: youtu.be/CLnCyllgVFo #leadership #systemsthinking

The 1st 2 pgs of the zine: surface points about structure (parts and structural relationships) and behavior (relationships that interconnect parts into systems are more than structural—they are higher level/subsystem or system scoped processes/behaviors/functions that give rise to system properties)

Also, Merrelyn Emery is in LI, for those who are interested: www.linkedin.com/posts/merrel...

Word of the Day: ATTPÅKLATT (Norwegian) - a child born many years after their siblings, literally translates as 'afterblob'.

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery

US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.

System Design and Software Architecture Workshop: Sept 22-24 and Sept 29-Oct 1, 2025 at 11 am - 3:30 pm Eastern Time; remote (zoom, miro, slack) Info/enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/s... Enroll soon for early bird pricing.

This rescue kitten was abused by her previous owners, but her new foster mom knows exactly how to gain her trust... 🥺 #cat #catday #bluesky

In this talk, Eduardo discusses a concept he has been working on called "Architecture Topologies", a set of thinking models and practices to help organisations understand and improve their approaches to architecture. Having explicit language to do that is essential:

People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just lying. Or both. 1/

Real success happens when you jointly optimise all four parts of the sociotechnical system and include the people who do the work in the design process. ..

In 1993, scientists fixed a solar-powered satellite whose onboard computer had frozen by sending it through the shadow of the moon to turn it off and on again.

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An organization only really begins to learn when its most cherished assumptions are challenged. A good way to do that is by using different worldviews.

"...any viable system developing autopoiesis in any of its Systems Two, Three, Four, or Five is pathologically autopoietic; and that entails a threat to its viability." –Stafford Beer I.e. Systems 2-5 should see themselves as support services and not viable systems in their own right.

Fun being on Laksh's Cyb3rSyn Labs podcast talking about #SocioTechnical systems and #OpenSystemsTheory. "Tune in to learn how to evolve your management practices and drive better organizational outcomes." www.cyb3rsyn.com/p/from-mecha...

Fun being on Laksh's Cyb3rSyn Labs podcast talking about #SocioTechnical systems and #OpenSystemsTheory. "Tune in to learn how to evolve your management practices and drive better organizational outcomes." www.cyb3rsyn.com/p/from-mecha...

The Adventures in Systems handout zine from SoCraTes Soltau: Formatted for 11x17 www.ruthmalan.com/Systems/2025... Formatted for A3 www.ruthmalan.com/Systems/2025... Folding instructions: www.flickr.com/photos/withj...

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

Locutus management tip: A self-organizing collective makes decisions better and faster than a hierarchy.

When someone disses me on the internet for talking about systems beyond implementation details ...

The Call for Proposals for #DDDEU is open until December 5, 2025. We're looking for hands-on labs and talks. No need to submit fully formed abstracts: if you submit a rough idea we like, we'll have a conversation with you to see where it could go: buff.ly/us1O2wz

Svært kjip tråd: I går besto jobben min i å vise en samling mennesker Oslos mest deprimerende gate. De var uvanlig oppvakte og samfunnsengasjerte folk, men de var likevel overrasket og sjokkert over hva de fikk se. (1/7)

People ask a lot of social questions they don't want social answers to. Like why doesn't a software methodology change the balance of power? Well let's see, did it have a structural understanding of power and a plan for that?? No?? Ok

Looking forward to speaking about trees and forests (systems thinking) at this year's #javazone.

So, imagine this: one complex design problem, four different collaborative modeling tools, four facilitators, and 45 minutes to solve it with a group of 8! That was the intense setup Krisztina, ‪@maxsc.bsky.social‬, ‪@hschwentner.bsky.social‬, and I ran at the DDD Europe hands-on labs.

One day to go for the webinar "Team Topologies meets Beyond Budgeting". Join us for a discussion about adaptive and humane organizations! 🎥 We will go live at 16:30 CEST. www.linkedin.com/events/teamt... #TeamTopologies #BeyondBudgeting #live #webinar

"The original purpose of a hierarchy is always to help its originating subsystem do their jobs better." —Donella Meadows Not what most organisations do today.