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:...

Darren Raven Lecture_Zine_Posts Lecture-Zine © 2025 by Darren Raven is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/license...

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! :-)

See the Forest for the Trees - Trond Hjorteland YouTube video by Virtual Domain-Driven Design

Discussion will be led by @trond.hjorteland.com .

You might know Trond Hjorteland from his talks on sociotechnical and open systems at conferences like DDDEU, and this one, hosted by @virtualddd.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B7A...

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 :)

yes!!! thank you, and @propcazhpm.bsky.social !!

Tiny Habits "Either"

youtu.be/lpPvb_fJdoQ?...

And in June we will have a different format, focused more on practices and in particular several “canvases” that support conversations.

But first! Next week, and the Emery and Trist Causal Textures paper, with @trond.hjorteland.com leading the discussion. 🎉

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."

Don’t ask forgiveness, radiate intent As simple encouragement to act, “ask forgiveness, not permission” is fair enough. But here are 4 reasons to signal your intentions:

But my goodness the page does look gorgeous right now :)

And we're all at "still hanging in there" so the feels are real!

And "signal intent" is an @elizayer.bsky.social gem:

medium.com/@ElizAyer/do...

Buttercup Festival comic: Protagonist looking a lil branch that still has some green leaves, but is clearly been snapped, but not all the way off: “Oh branch, did the storm do that to you?” Branch replies: Nothing good. It’s been rough I’ll tell you. BUT IM STILL HANGING ON. STILL GOT A BIT OF THAT XXLEM AND PHLOEM CONNECTIVITY. STILL GETTING SOME OF THAT SUN-TASTE, SOME OF THAT EARTH-TASTE. Last frame: in color Green forest (with bits of brown in undergrowth), yellow sunlight behind the broken branch

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?

Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]

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.

Preview material: (Socio-)Technical Decisions chapbook (pdf): ruthmalan.com/Leadership/T...

pages of student book (too small to read; just used for impression of thoughtful content)

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."

the top of the paper with title and authors (in the post) ‘Organizational environments differ in their causal texture, both as regards degree of uncertainty and in many other important respects. A typology is suggested that identifies four ‘‘ideal types"'

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.

Explore DDD 2026 Explore DDD 2026: Software Design Conference in Denver, Colorado, USA for Software Leaders. Practical, cutting-edge talks & workshops.

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