topologies are fractal
!! That's quite interesting. This allows for a consistent framing of the organizations system regardless of fractal layer. X Stream Aligned team is solving this problem, beneath that, it is solving it by having a couple stream teams, a complicated subsystem team, and an enabling team. Those don't have to be visible on the top layer.
The machine wasn't helpful without the surgeon techniques! Those techniques are still diffused, for free, between the practitioners.
This peer-to-peer aspect to innovations being essential is wonderful to me. It's really only innovative within a community of practice, without that the machine doesn't solve anything.
Social Annotations
I could make a group just for #systemsInPapers so folks could make private comments instead of public.
highlights and commentary
This commentary is just hanging out in the ether.
Not if the relationship is mutually beneficial and they love each other.
This is the key to all of this relationship around user innovation and companies! I think a lot of these methods are being used in purely extractive ways and we as consumers and innovators don't always notice. Those who do and speak up are usually ignored.
Not an example of a toolkit, necessarily, but example of a complex task that has been transformed for "normal people"
This one is interesting because of the advancements of AI in this particular field. Computers are now quite good at this, but they can still get things wrong and rely on humans to verify and validate. How does AI play in the area of user-driven innovation?
"Ok kids, the experts have arrived! To the side now, we will handle it for you!"
I've been on both sides of this! It's annoying when it happens to you, but also humbling when you finally recognize you've done it to someone else.
Have needs that foreshadow general demand in the marketplace
This is one of my favorite aspects of attending conferences and working with individuals and teams using products I'm working on who are pushing the edges of the capabilities and frustrated with the limitations. They understand their problems and how to solve them, but just don't have the right tools yet, so they make due with whatever they have. Those almost always indicate there are tons of others in the space with the same problems who just aren't yet able to articulate it clearly enough for a business to hear it and respond.
"You should have seen the crap quality of that farmer's welding."
This is one of my favorite parts just because of how dismissive these corporations are to prior art. I've seen this pattern repeatedly in software development where solutions are dismissed because the quality of the code is seen as inferior.
The second irony is that the designer who tries to eliminate the operator still leaves the operator to do the tasks which the designer cannot think how to automate. It is this approach which causes the problems to be discussed here, as it means that the operator can be left with an arbitrary collection of tasks, and little thought may have been given to providing support for them.
Indistinct tasks with no support or context also cause much angst to the operators.
man-machine systems
Socio-technical systems
Sources of Uncertainty
This would help think through a Wardley Map for a product.
costof change
I love this concept for Architecture. What are the things that will change most, or need to change most, and how can we shape the system to allow that change sustainably?
But the sublime isn’t just negative. It overwhelms us with its awesome power and in this moment, “the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain another.” Burke’s concept of the sublime was initially applied to such things as the ocean or the Alps - natural features that are so large, massive, and inherently dangerous that they put us in a state of awe-inspiring disbelief - and yet, and despite their mass and their danger, they give us feelings of deep pleasure and joy. To the people (including myself) who love Brutalism - it does engender feelings of unknowing, of mystery, and sometimes, especially when said Brutalist building is in disrepair or photographed at a particularly menacing angle, of fear or grief. It shares this, rather than a stylistic label, with the buildings featured in this post.
I really like this framing of not being able to comprehend the massiveness of what you're seeing. That is definitely something I've thought about brutalism but didn't know it before this.