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Everything is terrible, especially software

May 12, 2020May 12, 2020

Everything new is broken. one of Jerry Weinberg’s maxims This happens because every other part of the world hasn’t adapted to the new thing, and the new thing hasn’t adapted to the world it’s in. That newfangled 3D printer worked fine in the lab, but it wasn’t ready for ambient cat fur, and my computer …

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Tags software, tistil

Great software teaches

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020

Great software solves a problem that you have — plus problems you didn’t know you had. Here’s an example: today on Twitter, a friend let me know about a broken link to one of my old posts: The broken link lives in someone else’s blog post, so I can’t update the source. It looks like …

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Tags rebaseOnTheWorld, software, teaching

Reading: Why Information Grows

May 26, 2019July 29, 2018

Yesterday in a zine, I read an in-process book review of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Reading that was a project for the review author; they wrote the review while still in the thralls of the book. That seems like the best time, not after I’ve closed the book. So quick! before …

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Tags complexity, Information, software

Get happy developers to do what you want

May 26, 2019July 4, 2018

(originally published in the SD Times) How do we influence the operation of a complex dynamical system like a team? How do we get a development team to function closer to our preferences, and still let people operate as self-actualized humans? In Dynamics in Action, Alicia Juarrero describes complex systems such as people in terms …

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Tags automation, software, Systems Thinking

Horizonal goals

May 26, 2019April 15, 2018

Video version here There’s this great, short book by John Kay called Obliquity. It’s about goals that you can’t achieve by aiming for them directly; you have to look for an oblique goal that will happen to get you there. Like, you can’t aim for “happiness;” you have to find something such that aiming for …

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Tags abstraction, philosophy, seamap, software

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