Troubleshooting only gets more relevant? Mentioning in case you’d like to read the paper, and join the discussion on Wednesday:

interesting discussion ahead; join us next week?

my 13 years at bandcamp are coming to an end - i’ve been laid off along with most of the remaining engineers. best job i’ve ever had, working with the best people you could ever work with. unceremonious end to quite a ride.

After 3+ years, I have FINISHED this chapter on the origin of the universe!! A circuitous journey that has led to our home, in which that history of the universe is carried (and in all of us). This page recaps key moments & points forward to the next chapter - Life. Onward... #Nostos #Unflattening 2

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...

#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

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...

Karl has a microbiome!

Visitation: Buttercup Festival 3-383

Today 👇

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

Wind of change: Buttercup Festival 3-380

#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.

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...

EventStorming patterns and anti patterns from @ziobrando.bsky.social www.eventstorming.com/patterns/

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)

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!

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:...

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....

This is especially concerning because persistence is foundational to skill acquisition and one of the *strongest* predictors of long-term learning. AI conditions you to expect immediate answers, removing the productive struggle that builds real competence.

Brilliant to join @trond.hjorteland.com and @ruthmalan.bsky.social today on this call! A very patient and helpful exploration of this canonical paper, and an intelligent and appreciate audience - recommded! :-)

Really looking forward to this discussion on Monday April 6th! @trond.hjorteland.com brings his background as an active practitioner and curious inquirer into sociotechnical and open systems, and it’s already a lovely group who have indicated interest! We’d love to have you join us :)

Tiny Habits "Either" youtu.be/lpPvb_fJdoQ?...

In the second episode of this season of Satisfying Software, I talk with @kenny.weave-it.org on domains, subdomains, bounded contexts. What are they, what is the difference between them en when do we need which one? (We also talk about naming things) [1/2]

Really looking forward to this discussion on Monday April 6th! @trond.hjorteland.com brings his background as an active practitioner and curious inquirer into sociotechnical and open systems, and it’s already a lovely group who have indicated interest! We’d love to have you join us :)

"A main problem in the study of organizational change is that the environmental contexts in which organizations exist are themselves changing—at an increasing rate, under the impact of technological change. This means that they demand consideration for their own sake."

I added this BF to a closing page of the Technical Leadership workshop materials (for tomorrow), so here I am signaling intent so @buttercupfestival.bsky.social can stop me if that's a no. :) (The page also mentions Nivia Henry) Buttercup Festival Source: www.buttercupfestival.com/3-293.htm

The #PlatformEngineeringDay greatness at the #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon doesn't stop: now we got @hazelweakly.me talking about building extensible platforms! Things usually go this way: Strong components → system → complexity → components → ... Is the cycle unavoidable?

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

📖 A Conversation with Mathias Verraes, the founder of DDD Europe, on 10 years of Domain-Driven Design: buff.ly/EYVCB3M

Upcoming workshop: a socio-technical systems-informed approach to leadership One avenue we take: identify forces acting on a situation, develop alternatives and identify their consequences, and explore what our options are, when the organizational aspects of all that are.. tricky to navigate…

This one.

Safety Nerds, read the thread.

Noting for clarity that a lot of people working in software, including software engineers and designers, have a bad understanding of the software design process.

We’re leading within complex, dynamically adaptive, sociotechnical systems. We explore what that means (theory, practice, implications). Technical Leadership workshop March 24 and 31, 2026, 12-3PM Eastern Time (US/Canada) More info and to enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/t...

"A main problem in the study of organizational change is that the environmental contexts in which organizations exist are themselves changing—at an increasing rate, under the impact of technological change. This means that they demand consideration for their own sake."

Next up in #PapersInSystems : “The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments” by Fred E. Emery and Eric L. Trist (1965) media.wiley.com/product_data... Discussion will be led by @trond.hjorteland.com Monday April 6, 1-2pm Eastern Time (US/Canada). More info/sign up: ti.to/bredemeyer/c...

“ Middle Tech, proves indispensable for demonstrating how the mundane but nevertheless consequential choices inside AI companies, indeed in all software companies, are made by engineers…” much love and thanks for putting my work among these wonderful reads.

A little bird told me something exciting… 🐦 Early Bird tickets for Explore DDD go on sale Feb 23. Only 25 will be released — and they can be combined with group discounts. If DDD is part of your journey, this is your moment. 🎟️ https://exploreddd.com/ #DDD #ExploreDDD

Everyone is born curious. No one is born a good critical thinker.

And suddenly! This is next month, and I’m so excited to get to work with @joannadenni.com ! And you?

99% of stakeholder "ideas" is just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest. Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.

Chasing the sunset: Buttercup Festival 3-366

back the kickstarter now, and surprise future you with a lovely treat!