Engineers are not always the biggest fans of architects, as was demonstrated in Bruce's undergraduate engineering class, in which a lecturer used the example of the Sydney opera house to show his disdain for architects. On the left, a stylized rendition of said opera house; on the right, the alleged architect's solution to build it: a skyhook. 2/n
The first print copy of our new book has arrived at the Systems Approach southern campus, with Ingram beating Amazon in the print-on-demand speed test.
Now available from Amazon (and will soon be available from independent booksellers)
https://amzn.to/4p5CUqHFront cover in more detail:
Cover photo by Ziggy Stone on unsplash https://unsplash.com/@pacnw
Happy submitting a book for publication day to us!
While we've been jetting around to SIGCOMM and collecting photos of Portuguese bridges, we still managed to get a newsletter out the door. This one is an introduction to our latest book, an essay collection that compiles our favorite pieces on applications of the systems approach from the last four years:
https://systemsapproach.org/2025/09/22/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-systems/Meanwhile, here's another bridge (over the Douro river).
Another bridge for the collection. This one is in Lisbon and appears to be the same “international orange” as the Golden Gate
A bridge in the Douro Valley 📷
@DrbrucedSome nice bridges in Coimbra as
@Drbruced gets ready to give his keynote at SIGCOMM entitled “Water Under The Bridges” on Wednesday
https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025/program/keynote-info/A 2kg glass prism has been successfully shipped from New York to the Melbourne office of Systems Approach, proving the existence of unidirectional paths in the global package shipping network.
