Reposted by Ruth MalanPatrick Berry @patandkat.com · 26/09/2026Currently reading: Signals & Levers by Elisabeth Hendrickson; Joel Tosi 📚 011
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Received the book plus stickers from the authors today 🎉 So looking forward to 👇 170
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The book will be out on Tuesday (22nd)! And we’ll be discussing it, with a focus on ch 10, on Monday 28th. (There’s a link to the reading on sign up.) Join us? 064
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Soon! Join us?? In person, or for talks there’s a remote ticket option. 000
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026System Design and Software Architecture Workshop in October: ti.to/bredemeyer/s... This workshop moves from strategic understanding of context and framing a design opportunity, through shaping system capabilities and properties, to designing components, interactions, and APIs. Sampling of pages: 164
Reposted by Ruth MalanIT Revolution @itrevolution.com · 03/09/2026Sign up for a workshop with Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi, the authors of the upcoming book Signals & Levers, at Agile Testing Days! Nov. 16 - 19, 2026 Potsdam, Germany Info: itrev.io/4bL0rcf Register: itrev.io/3Uru9wW 013
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“I'm on chapter 5 and believe me, you want to read this book!” — Barry S. 054
Reposted by Ruth MalanButtercup Festival @buttercupfestival.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Don't Buttercup Festival originals look nice on a wall? www.buttercupfestival.com/originals.htm 061
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Got my @buttercupfestival.bsky.social ‘s up at last!! (They were my Christmas request. Don’t ask which Christmas, haha.) www.buttercupfestival.com/2-90.htm buttercupfestival.com/2-91.htm www.buttercupfestival.com/2-102.htm 180
Reposted by Ruth MalanHazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/08/2026It makes me happy every time I see this doing the rounds again 🥰 Shockingly, it’s still true 2567
Reposted by Ruth MalanElisabet Roselló Román @lisrosello.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Sé que se habla bastante de que si no sé qué complejo, que si no sé cuánto no-lineal (suele referirse a “exponencial”) Hace semanas publiqué artículos ahondando en fundamentos de ciencias de complejidad y paradigmas Qué es la complejidad (2º artículo) lisrosello.substack.com/p/ahora-si-q...lisrosello.substack.comAhora sí: qué es la complejidad 101. CyM II¿Qué es la complejidad? ¿Es una simple palabra de moda? Si es como paradigma científico ¿cómo se define? ¿qué hace que algo sea complejo y qué no? Vamos a desenredar el lío. 152
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026#PapersInSystems We have a very exciting discussion lined up for Monday, September 28 at 1-2 pm Eastern Time (US/Canada); 7pm CET Elisabeth Hendricks and Joel Tosi will lead discussion on ch 10 of their book *Signals and Levers* that is due out on Sept 22 Info/sign up: ti.to/bredemeyer/s... 182
Reposted by Ruth MalanLuke @lukepatrick.dev · 20/08/2026Are you going to #ExploreDDD? Then come to DevOpsDays Denver #devopsdays #devopsdaysrox devopsdays.org/events/2026-... Are you going to #devopsdaysrox? go to #ExploreDDD afterwards Hopefully everyone could co-mingle at the same happy hour event that week.devopsdays.orgDevopsdays Denver 2026devopsdays Denver 2026 032
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026And suddenly! #ExploreDDD 2026 is next month! In Denver, CO on September 21-25. @paulrayner.bsky.social and @indu-alagarsamy.bsky.social have designed a wonderful program, with workshops, talks, hands-on sessions, open space, and a day+ of modeling together. exploreddd.com I’m excited!exploreddd.comExplore DDD 2026 | Domain-Driven Design Conference in DenverExplore DDD 2026 is a Domain-Driven Design conference in Denver, September 21-25. Five days of talks, hands-on workshops, and open space for software leaders. 172
Reposted by Ruth MalanYvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I looked at a minutely detailed table of how long to steam potatoes in the Instant Pot and said, "I'm not reading all that; 8 minutes seems good." (for anyone at Papers in Systems who listened to me talk about my experience of how people choose initial configuration options) 0111
Reposted by Ruth MalanLucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The ancient texts still exist among us. 2433
Reposted by Ruth MalanRuth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Join us in discussing Meadows’ “Leverage Points”? ‘“This is a HUGE NEW SYSTEM people are inventing!” I said to myself. “They haven’t the SLIGHTEST IDEA how this complex structure will behave,” myself said back to me. “It’s almost certainly an example of cranking the system in the wrong direction”’ 2116
Reposted by Ruth MalanAlexander Ptakhin @aptakhin.name · 08/01/2026Here’s the paradox: – Systems regularly face challenges they weren’t designed to handle – Yet we keep using reductionism—treating entities as just sums of parts while ignoring how those parts interact 151
Reposted by Ruth MalanButtercup Festival @buttercupfestival.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Last full day of the tshirt presale! topa.to/buttercupfestival 051
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Join us in discussing Meadows’ “Leverage Points”? ‘“This is a HUGE NEW SYSTEM people are inventing!” I said to myself. “They haven’t the SLIGHTEST IDEA how this complex structure will behave,” myself said back to me. “It’s almost certainly an example of cranking the system in the wrong direction”’ 2116
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Next in our #PapersInSystems discussions: Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System." When: Mon, Aug 3, 2026, 1PM - 2PM Eastern Time (US/Canada) (19:00 CEST) The reading is at: donellameadows.org/archives/lev... More info/sign up (free, of course): ti.to/bredemeyer/p...donellameadows.orgLeverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System 050
Reposted by Ruth MalanYvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 16/07/2026paging @ruthmalan.bsky.social 2102
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026System Design and Software Architecture Workshop: Oct 5-7 and Oct 12-14, 2026 at 11 am - 3:30 pm Eastern Time (US/Canada). Remote (on Zoom) More info/enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/s... Preview material: Systems and System Design Overview (pdf): www.ruthmalan.com/systems/2025... 051
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Next #PapersInSystems July 8 (shifting from "first Monday" to Wednesday for this one), 1-2pm Eastern Time (US/Canada). Remote. Arty Starr and "Theory of Troubleshooting": dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Info/sign up: ti.to/bredemeyer/t...dl.acm.orgTheory of Troubleshooting: The Developer’s Cognitive Experience of Overcoming Confusion | ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and MethodologyThis paper introduces a Theory of Troubleshooting that is rooted in cognitive science. This theory helps software developers explain the challenges they face and the project risks that emerge as troubleshooting becomes difficult. We define troubleshooting ... 011
Reposted by Ruth MalanLisi Hocke @lisihocke.bsky.social · 07/06/2026#elbsides2026 is over. I took #sketchnotes on the conference day. While this activity helps me focus in the moment and memorize a talk better, the resulting notes are also great to share. So here they are from @elbsides.bsky.social: mastodon.social/@lisihocke/1... 1/2mastodon.socialLisi Hocke (@lisihocke@mastodon.social)#elbsides2026 is over. I took #sketchnotes on the conference day. While this activity helps me focus in the moment and memorize a talk better, the resulting notes are also great to share. So here they... 164
Reposted by Ruth MalanTrunk-Based Thierry (they/them) @tdpauw.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Published: Beyond the Shades of Conway's Law - Foundations: The Origin & The Mirroring Principle How the communities of Product Design and Organisation Design independently made similar observations to Conway's Law, introducing The Mirroring Principle. thinkinglabs.io/articles/202...thinkinglabs.ioBeyond the Shades of Conway's Law - Foundations: The Origin & The Mirroring Principle 034
Reposted by Ruth MalanButtercup Festival @buttercupfestival.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Visitation: Buttercup Festival 3-383 0233
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Excited to discuss Knowledge Power (KP) Maps and the CDE Model tomorrow (June 1)! Thinking I’ll bring Rich Pictures (in memory of Peter Checkland) to the “other conversation scaffolds” part of the discussion. #PapersInSystems 121
Reposted by Ruth MalanButtercup Festival @buttercupfestival.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Wind of change: Buttercup Festival 3-380 0415
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026#PapersInSystems discussions are by the community, for the community. Where community is formed around systems-informed design. Always grateful to the folk who lead the discussions, and who participate in them, deepening the learning for all of us with insights and connections to other work. 112
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026For the Monday, June 1 #PapersInSystems discussion: - Container Differences Exchanges Model, which Don Gray has used with organizations and Don will lead the discussion - Decision KP Maps, created by @roundcrisis.com and discussion will be led by Andrea Info/Enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/s... 132
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026EventStorming patterns and anti patterns from @ziobrando.bsky.social www.eventstorming.com/patterns/eventstorming.comEventstorming Patterns - EventStormingA growing selection of patterns and antipatterns to handle your workshop design and facilitation. We have been there too! 063
Reposted by Ruth MalanPacing @pacingmusic.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Welp we had a crazy bananas year last year and basically won the lottery of direct support tours twice But guess what my ass has been humbled and we are ready to DIY it tf up this spring as god intended!! I just finally crossed into the EXCITED stage from the "this is gonna be a disaster" stage 3153
Reposted by Ruth MalanNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Was this students box in which she adorned the exterior with eyes from the book and quotes on seeing and then had cut two eyes into the box which when you looked through revealed inner worlds, a dark one representing start of the book and bright sky for the ending. So cool, I was so touched! 181
Reposted by Ruth Malanapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 30/04/2026Indeed, come join Tailscale’s security team where we are building the future of everything (including everything that AI runs on) 0102
Reposted by Ruth MalanNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I got a kind note from an English teacher who’d been looking for ways to analyze images in comics & found my resource page on my visual analysis/annotation project. It was lovely to receive because a) it wasn’t ai spam & b) a reminder of why I share all this stuff spinweaveandcut.com/visual-analy... 411434
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Europe, this is wonderful! An orientation to collaborative co-creation of the experience runs through it — yes, it’s Open Space, with years of learning how to do that beautifully! 042
Reposted by Ruth MalanPacing @pacingmusic.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Hello blue sky dot com! We are going on tour again this spring! Playing with @thelastarizona.bsky.social @walteretc.bsky.social and many more friends We can’t wait to see your faces again! Please tell all your friends, tell your mom, tell your pet lizard linktr.ee/pacingmusic 1174
Reposted by Ruth MalanJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/04/2026Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:... 6245131371
Reposted by Ruth MalanShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I just learned (belatedly) about Darren Raven's Lecture-Zines: "daily Instagram series... where I share 12 x pages/images/collages/texts, inspired by 20 years of learning and teaching in higher education" — about methods, tools, experiments, etc. I love these....docs.google.comDarren Raven Lecture_Zine_PostsLecture-Zine © 2025 by Darren Raven is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/license... 2328
Reposted by Ruth MalanRachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026This is especially concerning because persistence is foundational to skill acquisition and one of the *strongest* predictors of long-term learning. AI conditions you to expect immediate answers, removing the productive struggle that builds real competence. 129467
Reposted by Ruth MalanBenjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 06/04/2026Brilliant to join @trond.hjorteland.com and @ruthmalan.bsky.social today on this call! A very patient and helpful exploration of this canonical paper, and an intelligent and appreciate audience - recommded! :-) 112
Reposted by Ruth MalanRuth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Really looking forward to this discussion on Monday April 6th! @trond.hjorteland.com brings his background as an active practitioner and curious inquirer into sociotechnical and open systems, and it’s already a lovely group who have indicated interest! We’d love to have you join us :) 153
