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!

8 more days of kickstarter, day 3 of countdown songs! dirty blonde started as a harp-accompanied piece in 2020, and it was finished in 2023 in a co-write with the amazing @patwhoisnice.bsky.social and purser :-) www.kickstarter.com/projects/cop...

Design designs. Dispositions disposition.

“we should remember that we can never wholly separate the human and the mechanical problem. This would seem too obvious to mention if we did not so often see that separation being made.” — Mary Parker Follett, Development of Business Management, 1925 in

Hello, bluesky.... it's been a minute but I have some exciting news for the new year :) youtu.be/bU_-OhxcFVI?...

If we accept that building good software requires many disciplines to come together, then "what's the ROI of UX?" is a meaningless question. When we attempt to organize based solely on "doing only the important work," categorizing "important" becomes politics, and you have to fight with politics.

This was a wonderful discussion — thank you @yvonnezlam.bsky.social and @johncutle.fish and everyone who participated! A big point of resonance is how much mutual appreciation there is for systems community!

This is a *free* 150 page chapbook that explores systems, system design and software architecture. And it’s … actually *good*??? Well, at least all the parts where I weave in this systems and design community’s insights are good. 😊

One of the highlights of 2025 for me? Someone saying “this was a really good read! i especially like the chaotic layout of the book 😂” about my Technical Decisions chapbook Because so true, but also… so not AI in its human quirks 😅 ruthmalan.com/Leadership/2...

Wow, this is important and practical research. *And some call this a strawman argument.

It’s a vividly written, thought-provoking newsletter, engaging thoughtfully with the challenges we face in product design and related:

First #PapersInSystems discussion of 2026: Monday, January 5, 1-2PM Eastern Time (US/Canada): "20 Things I Learned As A Systems (Over) Thinker" by @johncutle.fish Here: www.linkedin.com/posts/johnpc... Discussion will be led by @yvonnezlam.bsky.social Info/enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/c...

Copeland James is crowdfunding to bring this loveliness into the world. Of course, in addition to Copeland’s everlasting gratitude, there’s mine. If you’ve ever thought “I’d like to buy ruth coffee,” here’s a way (pay it forward a gen).

Good enough wins because of what you are able to treat as externalities

The Big Idea is short bursts of daily practice, sketching and writing in a Systems Adventure Journal. Through these practices and related reflections, we learn about systems, and as we turn our focus to particular situations, systems become a partner in our learning journey.