Notices by Ruth Malan — Systems (ruthmalan@mastodon.social), page 2

Places to Intervene in a System, by Sam Bradd adapted from Donella Meadows

Source: https://www.sfu.ca/complex-systems-frameworks/frameworks/unpacking-complexity/places-to-intervene.html

Drawing Change — such a pretty template for exploring choices with: what? So what? Now what?

Source: Sam Bradd, https://drawingchange.com/resource/a-visual-tool-for-all-seasons-what-so-what-now-what/

Dragons bearing gifts!

David Zinn (on IG):
https://www.instagram.com/p/DDcHz7_JuJy/

Day 19 #AdventOfSystemSeeing

Finding Dragons and Elephants

Revisit your rich picture (Day 8) or systems map (Day 15).
Look for “here be dragons" (challenges, resistance, etc.) and here be "elephants" (elephants are things we are avoiding having direct and real conversations about). Describe the dragons and elephants, and how you orient to them.

This prompt took inspiration from Christian Nold's work on mapping sensory journeys

Image source (not secure): http://sensoryjourneys.net

This is hard to read, but important for cis people, I think, to understand more the threat and worry for trans folk in the US
https://evhaste.com/2024/12/11/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-now/

“When I read Fahrenheit 451 for the first time,” LeVar Burton says, “I couldn’t imagine that situation in my reality. It was a shame, right? Wow. Those poor people in that misguided society. I live in that society now. That dystopian story has become my truth.”

https://www.gq.com/story/levar-burton-wants-you-to-read-banned-books

Via
https://m.ai6yr.org/@Jennifer/113634651121357362

December 1, and the start of #AdventOfSystemSeeing 2024 edition.

Like last year, there will be daily prompts on the AdventOfSystemSeeing hashtag (making it easier to follow or mute).

The idea is to do daily (15-20 minute) exercises in a System Journal (notebook). These could be a “make your own advent(ure)” sort of thing, or you can follow the prompts on the hashtag each day.

I have the 1978 titanic one so i’m good :)

But i dooooo have a workshop that already has wonderful folk (but more would be good):

https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113464998328779547

Yes. *That* John Gall.

1975 edition, for those who care and have more $ than i :)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1726289830/systemantics-how-systems-work-and

“2. CONNECTEDNESS
What does all this have to do with systems? Just this, that if I design a system with no regard for the universe that surrounds it, I will have scanty knowledge of what can impact* it. That is not a formula for success. To fit my system in to the larger system of systems around it, I must go to the next higher level of recursion”

— John Gall, How to Use Conscious Purpose Without Wrecking Everything

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/HowToUseConsciousPurposeWithoutWreckingEverything

(Thanks to @billseitz for hosting this.)

Do i post like an auctioneer sounds?

(My to do list is scary long; procrastinating is the only way!)

John Gall. qed
https://hachyderm.io/@norootcause/113563432591061513

It’s the price of two tech books, but the length of half of one?

That’s value right there! ;)

Y’all so done with my shit you’re not clicking through?

So I think Considerate Design should be A Thing.

But… it succeeds by being invisible??

Conundrumish.

Thinking about that one, in particular, in the context of infrastructure — and how it is invisible (taken for granted) until it breaks…

And how this is true also for infrastructures of care.

Even something like being considerate has this invisible property, unless we (intend, seek to) notice it.

If you’re on IG, and can take a little gender role education in stride… Mom_Life Comics does a courageous job of raising some tricky topics…

https://www.instagram.com/p/DChWWzPvLqQ/

Amended Rumelt (on strategy):

“Given diagnosis X,
And beliefs Y,
We choose guiding policy Z,
And coherent actions 1-5 to implement it.”

https://kellblog.com/2024/05/12/strategy-as-a-series-of-beliefs/

Via https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/113553131401840623

“Folks are leaving Goodreads, which was purchased by Jeff Bezos’ company Amazon in 2013, for The StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned company. Founder and CEO Nadia Odunayo, who started the book-tracking app as a side project, launched the space in 2019.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/storygraph-amazon-goodreads-jeff-bezos_l_673e2013e4b0f17b35e0a123

Via
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@fmhilton/113544425193959815

Via @StillIRise1963

@eaton yeah, i was scanning for a date on your talk…. Need to google i guess… Or! You could just tell us :)

Also, loved metaphoe — whether typo or intentional :)