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   Ruth — of systems & design (ruthmalan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 06:51:11 JST Ruth — of systems & design

   Woods' Theorem: "As the complexity of a system increases, the accuracy of any single agent's own model of that system decreases rapidly."

   https://snafucatchers.github.io/

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     Ruth — of systems & design (ruthmalan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 06:51:08 JST Ruth — of systems & design

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     Aaaaand now I need to add this wonderful image of weaving perspectives from Nick Sousanis' Unflattening (via https://www.ruthmalan.com/Bredemeyer/20241021SystemDesignIntro.pdf )

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     Cats? (from the Summer)

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     Aaaand more thread action, because I need to add this (system weaving):
     https://hachyderm.io/@mattly/115373109028376635

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     Ruth — of systems & design (ruthmalan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 06:51:09 JST Ruth — of systems & design

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     And now I need to attach this to the above thread (above the cat slurps):

     https://bsky.app/profile/yvonnezlam.bsky.social/post/3m2zelafwu22t

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     Aaand, now I need to connect this to my system weavers (are makers too) thread (above)
     https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/115368504245945122

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     And even if via LLMs we have convenient access to
     all the code...
     and tests
     and ADRS
     and product design and strategy documents
     and whatever else is written down...

     we have assistance (we hold in more or less suspension of (dis)belief), but
     we still have

     well, what Peter Naur said:

     https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/1985-naur.pdf

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     Organization models & roles, etc, are attempts at addressing this need for understanding, expertise, action (both local, and integrative/co-ordinating action) to have “organizational homes”… Recognizing that “broad scoped” (across) integration roles (management and more broadly scoped design & operations roles) need to inform and be informed by roles with more focused scope… The emphasis lands differently, but the underlying concerns are about how we organize to do system evolve-and-repair work

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     ok, ok. Cats?

     (sound on for slurping sounds)

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     Ruth — of systems & design (ruthmalan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Oct-2025 06:51:11 JST Ruth — of systems & design

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     Thinking of Kent Beck’s “paint drip people” image, but in relation to systems. Our finite time, focus, attention, encounters, mean that our understanding of the system has this “paint drip” aspect to it — sometimes (and especially for more broadly scoped roles) broad brush across and sometimes deep drips into, but never deep drips throughout the whole system (and its various contexts)…

     https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/paint-drip-people