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   Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 20:16:33 JST Dawn Ahukanna

   Collecting and curating* advent posts for ease of thread posting and finding them at some later date.

   *curating - select, organize and look after the “items” in a collection.

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     #FreeSoftwareAdvent day 3

     Penpot, open source and web-based design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers - https://penpot.app/

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     #FreeSoftwareAdvent starts here. Adding link to day 1 as I already posted and boosted - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/111629960375661054

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     #FreeSoftwareAdvent day 2
     Colima, Container runtimes on macOS (& Linux) with minimal setup - https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
     Primary use case: using ephemeral containers whilst developing interactive pre/pro-totypes. I got so tired of development software putting crap all over the place in directories. Get rid of all the junk when the container is deleted, leaving only the code intact on your machine.

     No, don’t need docker, k8s et al explained to me either-resist that urge. Share fav open source tool.

     Rocketman repeated this.
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     Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 01:54:33 JST Dawn Ahukanna

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     3. Create one or more (as time permits) concept cards with concept name, evocative doodle or icon that visually represents it & words (or quote) that gets idea of the concept across, as it relates to systems. Card size is an intentional constraint.
     You miiiight want to use fewer words, but this gets at the idea:
     The key is to not overthink it; we’re just getting ideas out. If you like idea of concept cards (or any other tool we use in these dailies), you can return to them with more time later.

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     What’re the cards for?
     If you create collection of them?
     Like any “stimulus” activity (like Oblique Strategies) can use them to direct questions at your system (under design/evolution)-like, what’s our system boundary?
     How’re we
     - thinking about it?
     - maintaining it?
     But creating the cards is already useful — we might go from “emergent properties” to observability” to “stigmergy” to “boundary object” & we’ve collected a bunch of useful (understanding generating) ideas - https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113588891523427144

     Bill repeated this.
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     - https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113588926627492841

     "Honor thy error as hidden intention"
     — Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, Oblique Strategies
     https://botsin.space/@oblique_strategies/113587599453731071

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     Day2- https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113581423741237489

     Draw your Org.
     1. Draw your organization* at least 3 different ways.
     * pick one of interest—this might be where you work, community organization, family
     2. Jot down reflections on what you learned about your org. What do these different views illuminate? What do you learn looking across them?
     Now “go meta” & think about the views you drew:
     3. What first occurred to you to draw? What do our customary views of organizations suggest? What views are helpful? Why?

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     Day 3 #AdventOfSystemSeeing - https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113587150948477180
     Explore System Concepts
     1. Spend several minutes brainstorming system concepts (boundary, parts, etc.). Create a list, mind-map, concept map, or whatever you find generative, to get your ideas about systems out where you can see them.
     If you still have time (in the 15-20 minute allotment):
     2. Draw a rounded rectangle roughly 1.5”H x3”W (about size of a business card), or do a crafty thing and cut out cards. These are the “cards” for step 3

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     #AdventOfSystemSeeing starts here. Adding link to day 1 as I already posted - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/113578126544189741

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     Day 1 2024 - https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113575899731144119
     “ Day 1 #AdventOfSystemSeeing

     Draw a Bicycle

     1. Draw a Bubble Diagram of a Bicycle. Use labelled bubbles (circles) to express the key concepts of a bicycle; use placement and size to convey relationships.

     2. Now draw a bicycle.

     3. What do we notice (more)? Jot down some notes /observations about drawing to see, to think, ..”

     Diagram source: https://illustrarch.com/articles/8702-bubble-diagram-in-architecture.html
     ——
     On mobile and will do this on device that enables drawing, like tablet/laptop/desktop.

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     Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:43:47 JST Dawn Ahukanna

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     “Realized that the word "context" is shorthand for the cumulative effect of all the past decisions that we cannot change now. Decisions about what business we're in, which clients we serve, what compromises we made, where we've invested time and effort, and where we didn't. All of it adds up.

     And here and now we are deciding things that will become tomorrow's context.”

     — @testobsessed

     Source: https://ruby.social/@testobsessed/111540359195800768

     Image: last year’s System Seeing included this prompt and these quotes

     Bill repeated this.
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     Reused, because history is so important — to understand where we are, and also Chesterton’s Fence - https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113530049138701203

     Chesterton’s Fence: “For simplicity, a fence/gate erected across a road. A modern reformer goes to it & says, "I don’t see use of this; let’s clear it away." A more intelligent reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see use of it, won't let you clear it. Go away & think. Then, when you can come back & tell me that you do see use of it, I may allow you destroy it."

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     Day 9 #AdventOfSystemSeeing

     Practice Empathy
     Pick one of the people in your situation sketch (Rich Picture, if you did that on Day 8), and explore their experience of this situation, using an Empathy Map (see instructions on the image.)

     Source: Dave Gray, https://medium.com/@davegray/updated-empathy-map-canvas-46df22df3c8a

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     Day 10 #AdventOfSystemSeeing

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     Day 11 #AdventOfSystemSeeing - https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113632594680201786

     Narrative History: Unwinding Threads

     Pick up a thread in the situation (in your verbal or visual narrative, or in your experience of it), explore how it took shape & came to be.

     What were the various paths of influence & unfolding? What are some stories of the history that you were there for, or have heard others tell?

     While you have time (in the 15-20 minute window), pick up other threads & explore those and notice interconnections.

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     "Complex systems have a history. Not only do they evolve through time, but their past is co-responsible for their present behaviour. Any analysis of a complex system that ignores the dimension of time is incomplete"

     - Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding
     Complex Systems

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     Day 6 #AdventOfSystemSeeing - https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113604340417956965

     Describe Focal Situation

     Think of a situation you’d like to explore with a systems lens as we practice various systems approaches and views. It's good (since these 15-20 minutes of daily journaling add up) if it's something that matters to you to explore and understand, and begin to shape responses to.

     Describe the situation.

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     Context Scan

     Consider the broader context of the situation you identified (in the Day 6 activity).

     One way to make this visual: Put your situation in a circle (named abstraction) at the center of your page. What’s around it? What is the “context” for this situation?

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     Day 8 #AdventOfSystemSeeing - https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113615403829378196

     Sketch the Situation

     Start to explore the situation you described — visually this time.
     Draw the situation, using words and images, but keep it informal and sketchy.

     The situation sets the general frame (so we aren't bringing the whole world into our picture).

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     Day 4 #AdventOfSystemSeeing - https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113592613547247198

     Russ Ackoff on Systems

     Watch and sketchnote: If Ackoff had given a Ted talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqEeIG8aPPk&t=91s&pp=2AFbkAIB

     It's roughly 10 minutes and he gets a lot done, the concepts and illustrations/stories are useful to have in one's repertoire for explaining systems ideas.
     [CW: limb loss thought experiment mentioned around minute 4:44-4:53]

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     • Nick Sousanis

     Day 5 #AdventOfSystemSeeing
     https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113598468555514136
     “Attending (more) closely

     Page is from @nsousanis book Unflattening. (It’s amazing; gift yourself!)

     Study the page & write notes, on the page if you have access to a printer (& size image to give margin). Take full 15-20 minutes, so you push yourself to notice more & then more. Focus on the meaning. The systems. The interactions. How it is communicated & conveyed. How it draws your attention. What you notice & become interested in.”

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     #FreeSoftwareAdvent day 6

     Rectangle - https://rectangleapp.com/
     Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas, released under the MIT License - https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

     This is MacOS focused as that’s my “daily use” operating system and not an invitation to persuade me to change.
     Share equivalents for other operating systems for the benefit of the wider community.

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     #FreeSoftwareAdvent day 7

     Joplin - https://joplinapp.org/
     Joplin is an open source note-taking app, released under the AGPL-3.0-or-later License - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/.

     Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device. Images, videos, PDFs, audio files, HTML + CSS are supported. Create math expressions and diagrams directly from the app. Take photos with the mobile app and save them to a note.

     alcinnz repeated this.
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     #FreeSoftwareAdvent day 8

     Tiddlywiki- https://tiddlywiki.com/
     “TiddlyWiki, unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising & sharing complex information. Use it to keep to-do list, plan an essay or novel, or organise your wedding. Record every thought that crosses your brain, or build a flexible and responsive website.”
     Code-https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5
     Hands down & should have been my first post. Been using, tweaking & experimenting since 2005.
     Latest adventure - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/113497459597508797

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     #FreeSoftwareAdvent day 4

     draw.io is an application for creating diagrams that can be used offline in a number of ways including as a stand-alone desktop application, as a progressive web application (PWA), or as a Chrome web app - https://www.drawio.com/doc/faq/offline.

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     #FreeSoftwareAdvent day 5

     MacDown - https://macdown.uranusjr.com/
     MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS, released under the MIT License - https://github.com/MacDownApp

     This is MacOS focused as that’s my “daily use”
     operating system and not an invitation to persuade me to change.
     Share equivalents for other operating systems for the benefit of the wider community.