Notices by Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social), page 2

#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.

#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

#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.

#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.

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.”

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]

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).

Day 7 #AdventOfSystemSeeing - https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113609812802233643

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?

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.

"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

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.

Day 10 #AdventOfSystemSeeing

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

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."

“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

@hbuchel I only view personal timeline as local and federated have “all sorts”.
Need to follow others to see boosts and use “friend of a friend-FoaF” ontological model to build timeline.

“imagine being
-so full of your prompt master geniusness to ask AI to depict scenes OF THE HOLOCAUST(OTH).
-an executive caring so little for quality of product approving AI generated videos OTH.
Just before introducing soloist, conductor mentioned both Spielberg & Williams thought they're not good enough for such serious job when approached to make Schindler's List.
but i'll tell U who thought they're good enough, the person asking AI to create background vids OTH

https://dybbuk.club/@talya/statuses/01JEHC2BFC5D7R2GJNZXFXQSWN

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
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On mobile and will do this on device that enables drawing, like tablet/laptop/desktop.

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

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