Alexander Thurow"Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again“
Tristan Harris interviewed by Otto Scharmer for the „Presencing Series 2026“:
Reclaiming Human Agency: Navigating AI, Social Fracture, and Polarization | Presencing Series 2026
YouTube
Some wise words to keep in mind over the next few months (or years):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM2c33qy16U
With the duration to keep them in mind depending on the bubble size that will be preceding the ‚bang‘ - like in @ewolff’s never-forgot Twitter adage dating back to the beginnings of the 2010s:
„I like 'big bang‘ projects; you need to be there when it is *big* - and need to be gone when it makes *bang*."
An AI CEO finally said something honest...
Yuval Noah Harari at the World Economic Forum 2026:
„An Honest Conversation on AI and Humanity“
FULL DISCUSSION: Yuval Noah Harari Warns AI Will Take Over Language, Law, and Power at WEF | AI1G
Special Address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada | World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026
The recording of my (german) „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development“ talk at the embarc Architektur Punsch on 08.12.2025 has been uploaded to YouTube.
For more details (including the link to a talk-related video interview that @sippsack did with me), see:
https://onmoderndev.de/en/blog/2025/12/08/remote-talk-on-08-12-2025-at-embarc-architektur-punsch
🖖, Alex
{ remote } Talk on 08.12.2025 at embarc Architektur-Punsch - On (Modern?) Software Development
On 08.12.2025 I held my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 20-Year Journey” at the embarc Architektur-Punsch (remote and in German). The talk was recorded and you can find it on YouTube: Hint: embarc’s Falk Sippach also did a short video interview with me. Additionally, the talk’s sources can be found here, […]
„Politics is how we make decisions in groups when we don’t agree on the goals. If we do agree on the goals then it's just a question how we’re going to meet them - we’re doing project management. But what do you do in a society, or a company, or an open source project or anything else where we don’t agree on where we’re supposed to go? […] That’s what politics studies. And I don’t think it’s a dirty word.“
@gvwilson in:
INNOQ Technology Lunch: @feststelltaste „Das tapfere Schneiderlein: Sieben Schnitte auf einen Streich“
INNOQ Technology Lunch: "Digitale Souveränität: Buzzword oder Business-Critical?"
„Simplify - and in simplifying your own code to solving your own local problems, you are also building institutional knowledge about how to simplify. Which sounds really basic, but I would claim we don’t really even have that [knowledge] anymore.“
Jonathan Blow in his talk „Preventing the collapse of civilization“ 🤔 -> 👏
https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?si=MleNlQVg8y8yag-Q
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