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Systems in general

Get the beat. Before you disturb the system in any way, watch how it behaves. If it’s a piece of music or a whitewater rapid or a fluctuation in a commodity price, study its beat. If it’s a social system, watch it work. - Donella Meadows Dancing With Systems

The real skill isn’t in writing clean code – it’s in cleaning up the mess we made the week before.

The big thing I learned in 10 years is that the act of stabilizing the mess is, itself, also messy. - https://twitter.com/lunivore/status/1482833853320503296

products and communications follow a design process centered on the user. Based on research to understand people’s needs and motivations, we explore solutions that meet those needs. - Design at Wikimedia

Sociotechnical Systems

• A Maturing of Systems Thinking? Evidence from Three Perspectives

• Physical limits to computation, "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong

• Review of Socio-technical Considerations to Ensure Successful Implementation of Industry 4.0

• Thriving in the Complexity of Software Development Using Open Sociotechnical Systems Design

  • Video 1 - Open Sociotechnical Systems Thinking with Trond Hjorteland
  • Video 2 - Sociotechnical systems design for the “digital coal mines” - Trond Hjorteland

• SCARS

• Wardley Maps + DDD + Team Topologies:

  • https://medium.com/nick-tune-tech-strategy-blog/domain-driven-design-ddd-vs-domain-driven-design-ddd-10ec1d5ca6c7
    • Video - Domain-Driven Design & Team Topologies for Product-led Organizations

• Analysis of the strategy and business side of technology and media, and the impact of technology on society

""the second generation system solves this" -- I'm sure it does, in fact it's going to solve so many problems that it's going to fail. --Second-system effect

• "Boring Technology"

• Technical Leadership Masterclass

• Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally

Six Decades of Software Engineering, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

• More History