Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

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SW Designer/consultant/mentor, author, inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design & xDD meme, heuristica (design heuristics!), patterns author, heuristic hunter, science/engineering nerd, jogger, gardener.
Websitehttps://wirfs-brock.com/rebecca
Bloghttps://wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/blog
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock5d ago
RonLichty5d ago
If you haven’t yet experienced Liberating Structures (or you have and just want more practice), the talented Anna Jackson & Fisher Qua are offering two free two-hour sessions this month. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/lucky-hunch-anna-jackson-fisher-qua-8518798067 (And if you don’t know “LS” at all, Liberating Structures are 43 "clever little patterns" designed to help leaders include every voice in shaping the future—from the classroom to the boardroom. Simple to learn, they shift focus from managing people to liberating their creative adaptability, from passive listening to active shaping.)
Lucky Hunch (Anna Jackson & Fisher Qua)

Anna and Fisher run online and in-person gatherings using Liberating Structures, a repertoire of participatory methods that can be applied with groups of any size, for basically any purpose. Anna Jackson (LinkedIn) Fisher Qua (LinkedIn)

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock6d ago

I'd like to share a report that reflects on the Save the World with Patterns and Pattern Languages workshop held at PLoP 2025 (Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Processes) conference last fall.

The workshop was motivated by ideas expressed in A Pattern Language, the first pattern language book (Alexander 1977): first, that patterns are intended to help address a problem (but not specifying exactly how to do so); second, that patterns are intended to be used with other patterns, and third, that patterns must “repair the world” around them.

Imagine a large, growing, adaptive, responsive, effective, values-based community organized with a pattern language orientation that was focused on helping individuals and groups address the challenges of wicked problems! Idealistic? Sure...but I think it is high time that we turn our thoughts towards repair and renewal and take action.

Here's the link to the report: https://wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/papers/patternlanguageswillsavetheworld/

If you are interested in furthering the conversation (or getting more involved) please reach out.

Rebecca’s Web – Pattern Languages Will Save the World!

This report is a reflection on the Save the World with Patterns and Pattern Languages workshop, an Imagination Run Wild session held at PLoP 2025.

Rebecca Wirfs-BrockMay 24

On a sunny Sunday, wordle in 2! My strategy to start has always been to start with a 5 letter word that first comes to mind... and I have no idea what I'll pick until I type it in...

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Rebecca Wirfs-BrockMay 22

Wordle Friday. A good start to a long weekend. Wordle 1,798 2/6

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Rebecca Wirfs-BrockMay 21

Oh, Ron Charles... this is why I subscribe to support your critiques...

https://open.substack.com/pub/roncharles/p/jeff-bezos-rejects-the-waste-land?r=4rtcp&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Jeff Bezos Rejects “The Waste Land”

From the archives of Poetry magazine

Ron Charles
Rebecca Wirfs-BrockMay 14

Tough wordle today.... but I got it! Wordle 1,790 5/6

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Rebecca Wirfs-BrockMay 14
Today's bake: Cranberry orange sourdough. All right, I'm proud of the ears... and was worried that my dough was too wet yesterday. Go figure. After several years of weekly sourdough bread making, I still haven't figured out the magic of consistent ears...
Rebecca Wirfs-BrockMay 12

The wordle gods were with me toay! Wordle 1,788 2/6

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Rebecca Wirfs-BrockMay 10
Irene ZhangMay 10
Do you read books by women and from the perspective of women? I’ve always thought that himpathy (a disproportionate level of empathy for men) was due to men simply not being able to imagine themselves as women, while women have been trained their entire lives to put themselves in men’s shoes. Highly recommend this article if you want to learn more. https://sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/26-its-not-only-the-violence-women
26. It’s Not Only The Violence: Women are Enraged by Men’s Cultivated Ignorance

A weekend long read that might make your blood boil, but might also help have better conversations about hard things.

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Rebecca Wirfs-BrockMay 9
On this day I got the outside sprinkler system running. Only 1 broken sprinkler (which took hours to fix), and two popped off sprinkler heads (easy to fix... just screw them back on), and adjustments to sprinklers in the raised veggie beds... and we're ready to go for the season. Every. Year. This. Is. A. Chore.