Schedules
Cleaning Up the Tabs
Schedules
Do you know what I was doing right before opening this text editor…. cleaning up my tabs! How delighted and surprised was I when I saw that this is what I was doing last week at this time. I suppose that is one reason for doing this experiment, to discover my personal rhythms and cadences. I am a creature of habit until I am not. I journaled obsessively every day until two months ago, when I all of a sudden did not realize why I was journalling - and stopped.
I love reading an artists’ journals and writers’ journals. I was just thinking of Eric Satie’s journal that I have at my apartment. When I went duckduckgoing for an image from Satie’s journal I got this from John Cage - Haiku, from the incredible website Drawing Matter.
I really enjoyed this piece by Ugo La Pietra on drawing matter. I am a sucker for collage.
Tabs
So what are these tabs!
Donald Hoffman on the fundamental nature of consciousness
This is a very long and technical discussion on consciousness. I cannot listen to it while I say, write this newsletter. I am hoping to get through it tonight maybe after the newsletter goes out.
This image is from the Sociocracy 3.0 website.
It is a new way to think about organizations and agile. Agile is a framework for running modern software teams with cross functional teams and a manifesto. I am actually SAFe certified, in addition to AWS and GCP certified. SAFe is agile at scale, so it goes beyond tech teams to to organizations as a whole. What all these certs mea is that I can fix/optimize your car, or coach you and a team of mechanics to fix/optimize your car, or coach your mechanics shop on how to use these principals on your mechanics teams to fix/optimize cars. You can hire me via the consultancy I work for and I’ll tell you all the secrets.
I am doing a Bonnitta Roy deep dive. I learned about her a month or so ago after listening to a podcast with future thinkers (although she is showing up all over my sense making networks). I am speaking on August 25 on sense making vs decision making in DevOps. DevOps is a set of technology practices that combines creating and maintaining infrastructure with writing code that runs on said infrastructure. I think I blogged about this.
My talk will be about the idea is that we come from a paradigm of the disciplinary society (decision making/Foucault) and we are moving into the paradigm of self-sovereign and self-organizing sense making. The question is how to use a sense making approach to metrics and optimization rather than decision making approach and what does this mean and why is it important. I am still developing these ideas and looking for sparring partners - so you know - here’s my calendly link.
Truly this tab has been making the rounds on my browser for a while. Here is a link to the original HBR paper. I think I am going to use it in my aforementioned talk on sense making and DevOps. Cynefin is a sense making framework. We can think about problems in five ways: Complex Complicated, Chaotic, Obvious and disorder. Disorder does not seem on the cynefin graphs I am not sure where it lives in the cynefin universe. Different contexts use different decision making techniques! So I like the distinction between decision making and problem framing.
Government as Platform - It is interesting to see how certain municipalities are attempting to adopt technology - and this means cloud/open data/open apis/IoT and unbundling.
Finally the Magic Flute - Bergman made a film version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. I had no clue! I love The Magic Flute. It was one of the last performances I saw with my Mother and Son at Lincoln Center in NYC before Covid. Here is an image of the performance from the New York City Theater website.
I hope you enjoyed that aria!
xo
Meredith