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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 28/07/2026

Speaking at KanDDDinsky 2026 in Berlin, 14-15 October. Two days of learning together with one of the best DDD communities out there, including some honest talk about what AI is doing to the way we build business software. Early bird (800 EUR) closes Friday, 31 July. kandddinsky.com/

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 20/03/2026

Dear followers and "fellow kids," In hopes of landing an interesting and fulfilling next gig, I just wanted to let you know that I'm ready for new assignments. Preferably helping companies with digital transformations that keep people at the centre. #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #SystemsThinking

How do you do, fellow kids? (old man with skateboard, 30 Rock)

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 18/11/2025

<Grumpy mode> I'm close to make another "You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means" talk, this time on "socio-technical." </> sessionize.com/s/trond-hjor...

"Old man tells at cloud" from The Simpsons.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 20/10/2025

I look forward to returning to Berlin and the wonderful #KanDDDinsky conference this week. Really happy to be able to speak there again. I will challenge the approach many companies have to agile transformations #systemsThinking #sociotechnical #selfOrganisation #agile #teamTopologies #orgDesign

Poster of Trond Hjorteland's talk at KanDDDinsky 2025.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 31/08/2025

Looking forward to doing my new systems thinking talk again at the @javazone.bsky.social conference on Thursday. In Norwegian this time. We'll look at alternatives to the analytical method, to reductionism and determinism that are not well-suited to complex social systems. Harmful even. #JavaZone

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 01/06/2025

Rehearsing the talk for @dddeu.bsky.social next week (yup, I actually do that! 😁) and it's coming together rather nicely. I look forward to presenting my current take on systems thinking and its importance to us. We need it more than ever. #DDDEU #systemsThinking

Screen grab of me rehearsing a talk in Keynote.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 12/02/2025

I am honoured to be asked to partake in the excellent FlowCon conference in April. Paris in the spring sounds just about right. 😊 www.flowcon.io

Flyer showing an image of Trond and a description of the talk "Seeing the world through a different lens".

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 09/01/2025

Detailing the plans for a Search Conference next week with Capra Consulting. Super excited to be able to put the training by Merrelyn Emery with the OST group in Canberra two years ago into real practice. opensystemstheory.org/home/learnin... opensystemstheory.org/home/tools-o... #OpenSystems

Merrelyn Emery and Peter Aughton with the OST class of 2023.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! I'll end this thread with a little homage to the guy who opened up this musical universe back in the late 80s. We have stayed good friends since and he's gone on to write, produce, and perform great stuff on his own. Starting with this record. Thanks @thetommyo.bsky.social! #MusicSky

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 31/12/2024

The collection would not have been complete without this band. As with The Cure, I was kind of late getting properly into them; not sure why to be honest. Joy Division inspired so many of the bands that followed with fantastic songs and the right amount of drama and bleakness. #MusicSky

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 30/12/2024

Coming towards the end of this thread now and to a band that I was surprisingly late to get into. Probably because I found them a bit too pop'y, till I came across this masterpiece from '82. Probably one of the darkest albums I know. The Cure's Pornography is hauntingly beautiful. #MusicSky

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 29/12/2024

Nick Cave has been around since the early days but hit home for me in a massive way with the Let Love In album. Remember listening to the vinyl in a record store and the opening track became an instant favourite, together with Red Right Hand. Especially live. Man, what a kicker. #MusicSky

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Let Love In.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 28/12/2024

So far, the selection has been embarrassing male-heavy, so I'm glad my next is fronted by one of the most amazing female voices there is. Dead Can Dance has always been a favourite, which, together with the Cocteau Twins, had female leads that used their voices as proper instruments. Mesmerising.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 27/12/2024

No surprise that I'm also fond of David Bowie and Iggy Pop. Especially when they collaborated. This was the first I bought and I absolutely love some to these songs. An his voice! Also remember well seeing him live for the first time in Oslo in the early 90s. What a man. So Blah-Blah-Blah.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 26/12/2024

I think my first record was actually by a-ha. I got Hunting High and Low as a gift as a teenager and did not appreciate it until way later, much due to their second album, which is such a fantastic piece. Not a commercial hit as the first but Scoundrel Days has some fantastic pieces on it. #MusicSky

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 25/12/2024

The next one also came out in 1990 as the previous two (what a year!) and remember we were told it was a mix between Sisters and Mission. There are similarities, but Fields of the Nephilim found their style with Elizium. This is a proper album, not just a collection of songs. What a soundscape!

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 24/12/2024

Another band that popped up naturally on my radar back then was The Sisters of Mercy. Again, this is not my favourite album or theirs but this was the one I got into first when it came out in 1990. I'm more into their more experimental stuff from the 80s now. Still, this is a good one: Vision Thing!

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 23/12/2024

I got introduced to a couple of more bands by this guy, one of them being The Mission. The album I picked for this list was released later though, in 1990, because that's the one I still frequently put on. Carved in Sand is a beautiful album in so many ways.

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 22/12/2024

One of these black clad people though I needed to replace my misguided live for in hair metal by some real music and started lending me his Cult albums and this one made a particular lasting impact. (The Sonic Temple album was the gateway drug must be said).

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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 27/11/2024

In the Open Systems Theory the claim and learning is that this type of joint optimization can only be reached by people doing the designs themselves.

Picture of Merrelyn Emery with a quote saying: “It is only when the people involved work out their own designs that the necessary motivation, responsibility and commitment to effective implementation is present.”

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