Software And Systems Architecture, more or less
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But also… we might consider how we use “opinions”…
Like, I have insights, observations, experience, but you! You have opinions.
jk jk I have opinions. You have insights.
But seriously though. “Opinions” is loaded. And that’s ok, if I’m reminding myself to be humble, to seek to verify, to probe and test.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/116264382437929097
No Technical Leadership alum this time (but someone bringing lessons over from the last System Design cohort, so that's cool)...
Given everything, it's just amazing to have several lovely folk from here (waves at @joannalaine and others) and others from LI, joining us ... TOMORROW and next week :)
Still some space.
Yes, that page all by itself is a good add to this thread:
https://mastodon.social/@kenny_baas/116277481327466048
But of course the whole Decisions chapbook is relevant. Here's an earlier version (than the version folk will get next week lol):
(pdf) https://ruthmalan.com/Leadership/TechnicalDecisions.pdf
"Here are [..] reasons that radiating intent is better than begging forgiveness:
Radiating intent gives a chance for someone to stop you before you do a thing, in case it's truly harmful
Radiating intent gives people who have information, or want to help, an opening to participate
Radiating intent leaves better evidence of your good will"
Radiate Intent: https://medium.com/@ElizAyer/dont-ask-forgiveness-radiate-intent-d36fd22393a3
RE: https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/116279595454250813
Now I need to get on Bluesky (since David Troupes isn't on here -- yet, so be nice) and do that @elizayer thing. What ElizAyer thing? Oh, goodness, do I have a page for you!!
Why yes... the workshop is tomorrow... why do you ask??
(There was a time when we were shipping materials and I had to make the last changes whole DAYS before the next iteration...)
... retaining a sense of play and humor is not just a way to cope... it's a way to shift perspective and ...
be resourceful :)
the notion that putting the workforce under pressure with layoffs will drive “efficiencies” and force transition to “revolutionary tech”… needs to be set alongside.. beyond-all-precedent accumulation of “comprehension debt” and integrity fails as responsibility sheds stack up…
our lessons about resilience were built on sufficient (requisite?) design responsibility …
https://social.kernel.org/objects/c67b32ed-cf17-4612-b725-b40b701287bc
As the number of LLM-generated patches in my inbox increases, I am starting to experience the sort of maintainer stress that has long been predicted. But there's another aspect of this that has re...
