Mastodawn

**Grandfather, you lived through an explosion of renewable energy beyond even the most optimistic forecasts. Yet fossil fuels persisted. What happened??**

**Well, grandson, you see, a very large number of professional people thought a sentence-generating software program had a little guy inside it. And then, **

David Linssen Feb 16

Shafik Yaghmour Feb 16

Reading “Thinking in Systems”

“Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals”

We often get stuck on what is said and forget to look at results. If the results never match what is said then you need to realize maybe what is said is meant to mislead. It could also be lack of skills but that is not much better.

David Linssen Feb 14

Ruth — of systems & design Feb 13

One of the things we think of as a downside of human interaction (disagreement, friction, the work it takes to understand and resolve, or not…) is also upside. Where power isn’t distorting too much, one person’s views aren’t being centered. There’s the need to get ideas (about the problem, and how to approach it) expressed in a way that conveys, which yields discovery & interwoven perspectives (across views — both in the sense of views of the system eg in sketches and models, and persons’ views)

"ten years ago tech was still doing good things, what happened?"

ten years ago you didn't know shit, now you do know some shit. that happened.

David Linssen Feb 4

Ketan Joshi May 20, 2025

You don't have to obey anyone's framing. Calling them British Petroleum. Call it a chatbot instead of "artificial intelligence". Use real emissions, not adjusted for offsets or certificates. It's all allowed!!!

David Linssen Jan 26

Paul Haddad

Jan 26

Neat new Apple AirTag! Maybe it'll help them find Apple's corporate soul.

David Linssen Jan 23

JA Westenberg Jan 23

Oops! Something went wrong. Would you like to reboot the millennium and try again?

David Linssen Jan 19

Freya Blekman Jan 19

I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.

So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

David Linssen Jan 19

Picard Tips Jan 19

Picard management tip: Don't assume anything is possible or impossible until you've asked the people who will be doing the work.