Notices by Ruth Malan (ruthmalan@mastodon.social), page 3

Now I need to add “expert’s dilemma” and “night science” to this page (smiles! But seriously… working at intersections is hard due to the work, and also because to be effective it needs to be collaborative, and we’re… not great at valuing that… expertise)

(From https://www.ruthmalan.com/Bredemeyer/20241021SystemDesignIntro.pdf)

Via @abebab :

https://bsky.app/profile/abeba.bsky.social/post/3la7jcxoowi2j

“While day science is compartmentalized, night science is truly interdisciplinary. You may bring an answer from your home field to another discipline, or conversely, venturing into another field may let you discover a route towards answering a research question in your main discipline. [..] But this creativity-enhancing interdisciplinarity comes at a price we may call "expert's dilemma": with your loss of status as a highly focused expert comes a loss of credibility”
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-020-01985-6

Since this meme was bouncing through the stream…

Top: Reading the post but not clicking the link
Lower: Clicking the link but not reading the document

;)

(The field’s diamonds are credited in the work, of course.)

Image: Dum, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/never-give-up-digging-for-diamonds

“SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE IS SYSTEM DESIGN IN CONTEXT

What a marvellous synthesis. That's a truth that we learned since the first era of design patterns. Nonetheless, It seems that in practice this body of knowledge fades in front of "emergency driven development".”

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andreabaruzzo_system-design-is-contextual-design-ugcPost-7258779461397975040-f0fa

“SystemDesign in most of time is suppressed from software discussions and teams are focused only in components of the system, or where they have “responsibility” or decision.

Understand and influence the system is a powerful strategy to ensure customer problems and needs are fulfilled.”

— Rafael Gorski

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rafaelgorski_system-design-is-contextual-design-activity-7258781412030353408-GAkU

Captures the “why” of the work!

And. Pressured times; we need a clearer understanding of that why.

I posted the first 50 or so slides of my Software Architecture and System Design Intro section on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ruth-malan-4558153_system-design-and-software-architecture-ugcPost-7252896158908325888-EIpd

And then with each Reshare (15! TY) and Like, I was reminded that I'm sooo uncomfortable with stopping before we get to Design in Context and Co-Evolutionary Design etc ...

This unfolds more of the picture:

System Design and Architecture (Introduction): https://www.ruthmalan.com/Bredemeyer/20241021SystemDesignIntro.pdf

Collecting up the “framing.” It’s a good reminder of the role that positive context setting plays.

"In a situation of uncertainty. The problem that you face is the problem of constructing a problem because you don’t know what the problem is. And the problem of constructing a problem is not a technical problem. In fact, the opposite is true, you have to construct the problem before you can carry out any technical activity."

-- Donald Schon (on design)

https://hiredthought.com/2021/02/24/donald-a-schon-at-iowa-state-university-talk-transcript/

"And by uncertainty I don’t mean simply not being able to make predictions with a high degree of probability, I mean that experience in some situations of not being able to make sense of what’s going on. I’m having what my friend Raymond Haner used to call, more information than you can handle." ../

👆and suddenly, the next remote open enrollment Technical Leadership workshop is next month!!

We’ve had *such* amazing technical leaders join us for these, but i don’t thiiink we’ve run the pond of wonderful leaders dry? Still some amazing folk who haven’t rotated through, sharing insights and experience, creating a co-learning adventure together?? :)

Technical Leadership Masterclass:

December 4 and December 11, 2024, at 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Time (US/Canada)

Info/enroll: https://ti.to/bredemeyer/technicalleadershipdec2024

*** early enrollment discount ***

We'll have an opportunity to tailor some elements of this workshop (and especially office hours) to challenges that participants want to focus on.

“An election that's within the margin of error is also within the margin of effort!” — @indivisibleteam

Who’s knocking doors this weekend??

TIL:

Oh wow... going back to that Visual Agility post had me seeing this reply again: "We are working in a completely different industry, computational biology, and your post describes why we model with refreshing clarity. It is also the reason that we believe in building consortia to bring a diversity of minds, disciplines and humans to ring to wrestle with wicked problems"

My brain really just immediately clears out nice things people say (to leave room for all the not so nice things lol)

This, from @bitboss (Updated: The model(s), in any language, is to create common ground -- shared expectations and commitments.)

See also: Visual Agility: Why We Model
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/visual-agility-why-we-model-ruth-malan/

It’s #BandcampFriday — time to listen to some new music, but what?

Japanese Breakfast
https://michellezauner.bandcamp.com/album/jubilee

Copeland James
https://copelandjames.bandcamp.com/music

Public Universal Friend
https://publicuniversalfriend.bandcamp.com/album/chrysalis

And album release next weekend, but preorder album or buy released singles now:

Evan Chapman
Https://evanchampman.bandcamp.com/album/reveries

I had to do it.

(The original adaptation/source of the Tom Gauld cartoon used: https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2024/sep/14/tom-gauld-on-distraction-cartoon)

The Tom Gauld original (at link above) is so good, of course. And begging to be adapted, as I did :)

Also here:
https://bsky.app/profile/tomgauld.bsky.social/post/3l444hktx6a2r

When you go out on the non-weight-bearing limb of an impromptu joke, and a couple folk respond supportively, you know who got your back :)