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I collected my results and reflections on #AdventOfSystemSeeing 2025 on a page on my blog: https://sebastian-hans.de/blog/aiss-2025/

Most of this has already been posted here, but I have added a PDF version of my zine “Advent(ure) in System Seeing 2025”, so you can print it, too, if you like.

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Ruth — of systems & design Jan 20

And @sebhans awesome zine from the #AdventOfSystemSeeing is here:
https://hachyderm.io/@sebhans/115780531339528008

Sebastian Hans (@[email protected])

Attached: 4 images #AdventOfSystemSeeing, day 24. Doing this on Christmas Eve with 2 kids? No chance! Today, they are busy with their presents, and I have some free time. I admit, I groaned every time I encountered a “make a zine page” exercise because drawing does not come naturally to me, but now I already had 5 pages I wanted to finish it. So I added a title page and created two additional pages to illustrate all the tools we used during the course of our Advent(ure). I am quite pleased with the result. I intend to keep it on my desk as a tangible reminder to practice system seeing more often, and as a quick reference. Thank you, @[email protected], for your prompts and the effort you put into them! Doing this on a website instead of only the feed was a good idea. It made it easier for me to tag along slightly behind, and also to review the tools and methods for my tool collection pages. A photo of the second tool collection (and final) page follows (can only attach 4 pictures here).

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fanf42 Jan 10

@RuthMalan thank you for sharing !
Given the quantity of interesting things we forgot when information was scarce, the AI slop years and west beyond-true-and-false-bulldhit in-leaders are going to be a black hole.

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Ruth — of systems & design Dec 29

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/115737683647764053

After 24 days of “burning the midnight oil” each night, creating a web page for the next day’s #AdventOfSystemSeeing activity, I was… ready to create another week of prompts for another System Seeing Journal Starter Kit for folk to use to get 2026 off on a system journaling note?

Well, noooo… I figure last year’s version will do for that, while I create … surprises :)

Willem Van den Ende - Writing Dec 29

#AdventOfSystemSeeing day 4. I could draw an image, but writing a blog post fell by the wayside with kids performances, limited time for pair work with @StOnSoftware that needed to go into production software & knowledge sharing before the holidays. Also other blog posts that needed to go out and took time to put together.

Sebastian Hans Dec 25

#AdventOfSystemSeeing, day 24. Doing this on Christmas Eve with 2 kids? No chance! Today, they are busy with their presents, and I have some free time. I admit, I groaned every time I encountered a “make a zine page” exercise because drawing does not come naturally to me, but now I already had 5 pages I wanted to finish it. So I added a title page and created two additional pages to illustrate all the tools we used during the course of our Advent(ure). I am quite pleased with the result. I intend to keep it on my desk as a tangible reminder to practice system seeing more often, and as a quick reference.

Thank you, @RuthMalan, for your prompts and the effort you put into them! Doing this on a website instead of only the feed was a good idea. It made it easier for me to tag along slightly behind, and also to review the tools and methods for my tool collection pages.

A photo of the second tool collection (and final) page follows (can only attach 4 pictures here).

Ruth — of systems & design Dec 24

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/115737683647764053

My mastodon wrapped says #AdventOfSystemSeeing is my most used hashtag this year, and well, yeah… 24 days of Advent prompts is more than (at most) 12 months of #PapersInSystems announcements :D

Ruth — of systems & design Dec 24

#AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 24: Adventure Zine

Complete your zine, and It’s a Wrap!! 🎄

https://www.ruthmalan.com/Advent/2025/Day24.html

Zine I created with the pages that @sebhans shared during this Advent(ure):

Sebastian Hans Dec 23

Reflecting on #AdventOfSystemSeeing, day 23: There were definitely “differences between [my] external dialogue and internal thoughts and feelings.” I think this is necessary to a certain degree. In general, you don't want to bleat out the first thing that comes to mind in a professional setting. In the situation I had in mind, I had certain suspicions about the motives of the other party, but this was not the moment to address them. There will be a meeting at the beginning of the new year where the cards will be put on the table. We will prepare for this and hopefully have a fruitful discussion then.

Sebastian Hans Dec 23

Reflecting on #AdventOfSystemSeeing, day 22: This exercise felt very similar to “Exploring Constraints and Forces” on day 19. When I squint a bit, the goal here looks like the problem there, the actors here form a subset of the constraints there, the impacts here are roughly equivalent to the forces there, and the responses here look like the approaches there. Assumptions are not explicitly called out here, although some of the impacts I listed are indeed assumptions rather than proven facts.

In order to not just copy everything over, I chose a different goal to explore today.

What's new here is the last paragraph where we ask about side-effects and explore further beyond the right side of the diagram. We could do that with the other one, too, however.

So, @RuthMalan, am I right about this being kind of a subset of day 19? If not, what did I miss?