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In exactly this context the following toot by @mcc has indeed aged well (fyi @baldur):
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114321812582398229
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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In exactly this context the following toot by @mcc has indeed aged well (fyi @baldur):
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114321812582398229
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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„… resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happen so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.” /4
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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„… resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happen so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.” /4
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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Well, well... I guess @baldur’s „Out of the Software Crisis" aged well:
https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/113693205804225403
Now also with AI on top of it. Interesting times.
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Well, well... I guess @baldur’s „Out of the Software Crisis" aged well:
https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/113693205804225403
Now also with AI on top of it. Interesting times.
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„There’s a moment every engineer knows but rarely talks about. It’s not the one before a deploy, or the one after a pager alert. It’s the moment after you’ve opened your 6th tab of the hour, when your eyes blur, your shoulders instinctively rise towards your ears, and you realise you can’t remember what you were doing just 5 minutes ago. It’s the moment where the work stops being work, and becomes interruption management.“
https://russmiles.substack.com/p/on-the-pain-of-task-switching
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„There’s a moment every engineer knows but rarely talks about. It’s not the one before a deploy, or the one after a pager alert. It’s the moment after you’ve opened your 6th tab of the hour, when your eyes blur, your shoulders instinctively rise towards your ears, and you realise you can’t remember what you were doing just 5 minutes ago. It’s the moment where the work stops being work, and becomes interruption management.“
https://russmiles.substack.com/p/on-the-pain-of-task-switching
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„[…] the mind is not the reliable, neutral instrument we tend to assume. Memory reconstructs rather than records. Bias edits what we remember in self-serving directions. Emotion shapes which memories surface and how we weigh what we find. And the modern habit of constant switching quietly erodes our capacity to think carefully at all. Together, these four themes point to the same practical conclusion – a…“ 1/
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„[…] the mind is not the reliable, neutral instrument we tend to assume. Memory reconstructs rather than records. Bias edits what we remember in self-serving directions. Emotion shapes which memories surface and how we weigh what we find. And the modern habit of constant switching quietly erodes our capacity to think carefully at all. Together, these four themes point to the same practical conclusion – a…“ 1/
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Joseph Pelrine: „#99 - The Myth of Multitasking“
https://ckarchive.com/b/75u7h8h673d5xf6rgg7rlaw4w63oqunhge25w
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Joseph Pelrine: „#99 - The Myth of Multitasking“
https://ckarchive.com/b/75u7h8h673d5xf6rgg7rlaw4w63oqunhge25w
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Faisal Hoque: "There isn’t an AI bubble—there are three“
https://www.fastcompany.com/91400857/there-isnt-an-ai-bubble-there-are-three-ai-bu
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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Faisal Hoque: "There isn’t an AI bubble—there are three“
https://www.fastcompany.com/91400857/there-isnt-an-ai-bubble-there-are-three-ai-bu
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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@ufried’s JAX 2026 slide deck:
„The 7 pitfalls of AI“
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@ufried’s JAX 2026 slide deck:
„The 7 pitfalls of AI“
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“To sum up: There is some level of essential acceleration. However, this perceived ever-increasing speed in IT that exhausts us increasingly is something we created and fuel ourselves. This is what I mean by:
We are our own worst enemies.
We are the ones who make our lives worse by reflexively running faster and faster, in directions that others set.”
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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“To sum up: There is some level of essential acceleration. However, this perceived ever-increasing speed in IT that exhausts us increasingly is something we created and fuel ourselves. This is what I mean by:
We are our own worst enemies.
We are the ones who make our lives worse by reflexively running faster and faster, in directions that others set.”
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuClassics
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„What struck me most is the emphasis on what grows quietly:
Not the visible complexity in the code.
But the erosion of understanding.
The fading of intent.
The slow drift between what we think a system is and what it has become.“
Margaret-Anne Storey about Russ Miles‘ „The Debts That Grow in Silence“
https://www.softwareenchiridion.com/p/the-debts-that-grow-in-silence
#OnModernDev #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuReading
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„What struck me most is the emphasis on what grows quietly:
Not the visible complexity in the code.
But the erosion of understanding.
The fading of intent.
The slow drift between what we think a system is and what it has become.“
Margaret-Anne Storey about Russ Miles‘ „The Debts That Grow in Silence“
https://www.softwareenchiridion.com/p/the-debts-that-grow-in-silence
#OnModernDev #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuReading
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Andrew Murphy: "If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems“
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuClassics #AlexThuOrgDev #AlexThuDisruption
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Andrew Murphy: "If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems“
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuClassics #AlexThuOrgDev #AlexThuDisruption
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„Joy at work seems like such a simple idea - just make everyone happy, right? No! Embracing joy at work means fighting joy's greatest enemy: fear. And unfortunately, leadership based on fear is the status quo for nearly every organization and bureaucracy.“
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuClassics #AlexThuOrgDev
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„Joy at work seems like such a simple idea - just make everyone happy, right? No! Embracing joy at work means fighting joy's greatest enemy: fear. And unfortunately, leadership based on fear is the status quo for nearly every organization and bureaucracy.“
#OnModernDev #AlexThuReading #AlexThuClassics #AlexThuOrgDev
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… my final recommendation:
„Carl Sagan's best speech about humanity and our place in the universe.“
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DEwSVnBCp9A&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5tD
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… my final recommendation:
„Carl Sagan's best speech about humanity and our place in the universe.“
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DEwSVnBCp9A&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5tD
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„When speed becomes the measure of performance it governs the way we experience our lives as well as the quality of our lives. Speed becomes a reason to settle for lower quality and ignore our desires. A friend, Meg Wheatley, told me about a poet who agreed to publish a poem on a very tight deadline. When she asked how he could do that, he said, "All I have to do is lower my standards."“
(Peter Block in „The Answer To How Is Yes“)
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„When speed becomes the measure of performance it governs the way we experience our lives as well as the quality of our lives. Speed becomes a reason to settle for lower quality and ignore our desires. A friend, Meg Wheatley, told me about a poet who agreed to publish a poem on a very tight deadline. When she asked how he could do that, he said, "All I have to do is lower my standards."“
(Peter Block in „The Answer To How Is Yes“)
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"Conspiracy theories are everywhere and people don't understand how harmful they are.
I made the original Conspiracy Chart over a year ago. An update was long overdue. This is the 2021 version.“
(Abbie Richards - https://x.com/abbieasr/status/1462953203067240450)
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"Conspiracy theories are everywhere and people don't understand how harmful they are.
I made the original Conspiracy Chart over a year ago. An update was long overdue. This is the 2021 version.“
(Abbie Richards - https://x.com/abbieasr/status/1462953203067240450)
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"WE can build cultures.
MANAGEMENT can’t.It is impossible to use hierarchy to impose autonomy. @bethcodes #agile2022“
(@jessitron - https://x.com/jessitron/status/1549396214398984194)
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"WE can build cultures.
MANAGEMENT can’t.It is impossible to use hierarchy to impose autonomy. @bethcodes #agile2022“
(@jessitron - https://x.com/jessitron/status/1549396214398984194)
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"WE can build cultures.
MANAGEMENT can’t.It is impossible to use hierarchy to impose autonomy. @bethcodes #agile2022“
(@jessitron - https://x.com/jessitron/status/1549396214398984194)
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"WE can build cultures.
MANAGEMENT can’t.It is impossible to use hierarchy to impose autonomy. @bethcodes #agile2022“
(@jessitron - https://x.com/jessitron/status/1549396214398984194)
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"WE can build cultures.
MANAGEMENT can’t.It is impossible to use hierarchy to impose autonomy. @bethcodes #agile2022“
(@jessitron - https://x.com/jessitron/status/1549396214398984194)
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"“I’ve found no limit to how small your steps can be and how fast your feedback can be. Faster feedback means faster learning.” @chethendrickson #Agile2022“
(James Shore - https://x.com/jamesshore/status/1549480994809470978)
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"“I’ve found no limit to how small your steps can be and how fast your feedback can be. Faster feedback means faster learning.” @chethendrickson #Agile2022“
(James Shore - https://x.com/jamesshore/status/1549480994809470978)
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"“I’ve found no limit to how small your steps can be and how fast your feedback can be. Faster feedback means faster learning.” @chethendrickson #Agile2022“
(James Shore - https://x.com/jamesshore/status/1549480994809470978)
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"“I’ve found no limit to how small your steps can be and how fast your feedback can be. Faster feedback means faster learning.” @chethendrickson #Agile2022“
(James Shore - https://x.com/jamesshore/status/1549480994809470978)
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"“I’ve found no limit to how small your steps can be and how fast your feedback can be. Faster feedback means faster learning.” @chethendrickson #Agile2022“
(James Shore - https://x.com/jamesshore/status/1549480994809470978)
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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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„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“