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Starting tomorrow:
MIT/u-lab MOOC "u-lab: Leading From the Emerging Future"
https://mitxonline.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITxT+15.671.1x/
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„Somehow he [W. Edwards Deming] had said in a sentence what I had struggled to put into four hundred pages. It is amazing, I thought, how clear and direct you can be when you reach the end of your years (Deming was then almost 90). As I took in the totality of what he had written, I slowly started to realize he had unveiled a deeper layer of connections, and a bigger task, than I had previously…“ 1/
(Peter M. Senge in „The Fifth Discipline“)
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„Since any problem is a difference between a perceived state and a desired state, when we change a state to ‚solve‘ a problem, we usually create one or more other problems. […]
EACH SOLUTION IS THE SOURCE OF THE NEXT PROBLEM.
We never get rid of problems. Problems, solutions, and new problems weave an endless chain. The best we can hope for is that the problems we substitute are less troublesome than the ones we ‚solve.‘“
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I have been recommending the slides of the "Fantastic Biases & Where to Find Them in Software Development“ talk by Michael Kutz & João Proença for years now (you can find them here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nH4U-mAxMhLxB9k2RKVb5fG51Z-JBmbTV-JQGAV2Q3w/edit#slide=id.p).
But recently @stefanscheidt provided me with a link to a recording of that marvelous talk. Make sure to not miss out on that one:
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Today I received notice that my Craft 2025 talk became available on YouTube 💯!
In case you were not able to participate, feel free to check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV-glhoGSh8
All the best from Lake Constance,
Alex 🖖 -
Nice catch in Carl Sagan‘s „Cosmos“ while reading a section about mankind‘s SETI endeavor - a footnote there states:
„Consider this pronouncement from a British Defence Department spokesman as reported in the London Observer for February 26, 1978: "Any messages transmitted from outer space are the responsibility of the BBC and the Post Office. It is their responsibility to track down illegal broadcasts."
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„Joe Armstrong said about dependencies, "You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle."“ (Dave Thomas in „Simplicity“)
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„Die Chaostheorie beruht im Wesentlichen auf drei Axiomen: Das erste ist, dass chaotische Systeme in ihrem Verhalten zwar streng deterministisch sind (d. h., ihr Verhalten ist vollkommen durch Gesetze und Regeln bestimmt), dass aber - zweites Axiom - ihr Verhalten trotzdem praktisch unberechenbar ist, weil aufgrund der unüberschaubaren Menge und Schnelligkeit von Rückkopplungsprozessen minimale Veränderungen der Ausgangsbedingungen…“ 1/
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Die Aufzeichnung meines „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Beobachtungen von einer 20-jährigen Reise“-Talks vom 04.06.25 beim techCamp Hamburg ist jetzt bei YouTube abrufbar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux0by9vGnmQ
Am 18.08. besteht darüber hinaus die Möglichkeit sich die Langversion des Vortrags bei einer Gemeinschaftsveranstaltung der Softwerkskammer Köln und den REWE digital Events anzuschauen:
https://onmoderndev.de/2025/07/14/vortrag-am-18-08-2025-bei-der-softwerkskammer-koeln/
Live long and prosper, 🖖
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„Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage. […] So let me go on the record: vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.“ (Dr. Brené Brown)
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„Menschen werden von Motiven getrieben: Jeder Mensch ist Träger einer Vielzahl von Motiven und damit „intrinsisch motiviert". Das Ausmaß der jeweiligen Motive, also deren Dominanz, variiert von Mensch zu Mensch sehr stark. Dass Motive von innen heraus wirken, hat Konsequenzen für Organisationen bzw. Arbeitgeber: sie können nicht motivieren - weil jeder Mensch bereits motiviert ist. Organisationen können nur das Umfeld beeinflussen. Also…“ 1/
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„Welcome to the expert-novice bond—a relationship that predates most of what we consider to be civilization. Experts can’t do what they do without help. Novices want to help, and to learn. So they build a collaborative bond that’s also the engine for building skill. But wait, what about books? School? Workshops? Even Khan Academy or YouTube? Hasn’t our increasingly connected, up-to-date, inexpensive, global academy taken center stage away from…“ 1/
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Prof. Peter Kruse: "8 Regeln für den totalen Stillstand 2008"
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@innoq Technology Lunch: "Vibe Coding: Der Anfang vom Ende des Programmierens?"
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Both English and German recordings of my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Observations From a 20-Year Journey“ have been uploaded to YouTube. You can watch them here:
29.05.2025 at Craft Conference Budapest (english):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV-glhoGSh819.03.2025 at ScrumTisch Darmstadt (german):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRS2QvquSfgAlso see: https://www.youtube.com/@OnModernDev
Greetings from Germany, 🖖
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Come join us today at @jitterted ‘s tech book club… we are starting off with reading Vlad Khononov‘s „Balancing Coupling in Software Design“ 🙋🏻♂️
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"Comments are the names you would use for a chunk of code if you knew how to extract method. #codecomments“
(Arlo Belshee - https://twitter.com/arlobelshee/status/462629848587182080)
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Gunter Dueck #rpTEN
‘Wie sieht die Welt in 2040 aus?’
‘Das kommt darauf an was ich will.’
‘Einfach wie sie aussieht wenn keiner was will.’
‘Dann sag’ ich wie sie dann aussieht und dann heißt es: ‘Hui, das ist aber düster!’’Keiner traut sich zu sagen wie WILL ich sie in 3 Jahren haben… denn dann muss man arbeiten!’
’Ich wollte einfach nur sagen es ist hart und wir müssen uns endlich mal mit den Problemen auseinandersetzen und nicht immer drüber schwallen!“ 🎯’
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"We rewrite code too often instead of improving existing ones mostly because wrong reasons https://twitter.com/karolikl #leetspeak" (Rui Carvalho - https://twitter.com/rhwy/status/652846879680671744)
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"When do code can be considered as Legacy ? There's no absolute definition :-) https://twitter.com/karolikl
#leetspeak" (Rui Carvalho - https://twitter.com/rhwy/status/652852303834296320) -
"We rewrite code too often instead of improving existing ones mostly because wrong reasons @karolikl #leetspeak" (Karoline Klever via Rui Carvaho - https://twitter.com/rhwy/status/652846879680671744)
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""Die großartige @republica
-Session von https://twitter.com/wilddueck
zu Schwarmdummheit jetzt als Video. http://youtu.be/rc37ov1iVFQ #rp15 #servicetweet"" (Arnke Henkes - https://twitter.com/arne_henkes/status/595964730902183936) -
„A hilarious demonstration of feature creep: https://youtu.be/aSFfLVxT5vA?t=616 #Angular2“ (Jonas Bandi - https://twitter.com/jbandi/status/734388919266086912)
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„WITHIN HOURS OF publishing our story, people had taken over the streets in Mexico City to call for Peña Nieto's resignation. The hashtag #GobiernoEspía - the government spies - started trending worldwide on Twitter. All of Mexico appeared to be up in arms. Our reporting had forced Peña Nieto to acknowledge that Mexico was using NSO's spyware - a first for any government leader. But Peña Nieto denied ordering the government to spy on his critics and journalists. And then Mexico's president…“ 1/
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„I‘m beginning to think decisiveness is overrated… but I reserve the right to change my mind.“ (Adam Grant in „Think Again“)
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Ok, I have to say it: James Nestor‘s „Breath - The new science of a lost art“ is a mind-warping read 👏📒
https://www.thalia.de/ul/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1059775050
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„The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is.
—G. K. Chesterton,' 20th century writer“… as found in Donella H. Meadows „Thinking in Systems - A Primer“
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„I believe that sw quality is dictated by the system that made it. It isn't decided by process, team, platform, or prog. language, but by the system that integrates those elements into a functioning whole. That means we can improve most sw simply by looking at how elements flow from one part of the system to another and how they interact. We can improve without throwing away what we already know, without adopting this week’s...“ 1/