January 2020

Frames: Build, Race, and More

Change Harvesting / / 8 minutes of reading

Well, Change-Harvesters, I want so badly to connect up the dots from these previous muses about the topic and tie them back to the concrete realities of professional software development. But I can’t. Yet. I can’t yet. We have just a little further to go. When we talked about "if all you have is a hammer", we mentioned frames, and I mentioned Race, Build, and More, but then we kept right on going. I want to circle back now, because […]

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Change-Harvesting: The How

Change Harvesting, Change / / 6 minutes of reading

The central concept of a dynamic unity is change-harvesting: make a change, harvest its value, use that value to make another change, over and over, change after change, world without end. We spoke the other day about how tools shape problems. "If all you have is a hammer, all you will see are nails." It was a conversation about mental tools: frames, worldviews, culture. My contention is that our trade’s standard frames, worldviews, and culture are failing us, and that

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Change-Harvesting and the Dynamic Unity

Change Harvesting, Change / / 5 minutes of reading

Reframing ourselves around change-harvesting involves several important concepts or concept-clusters. Maybe the most basic of these is the idea of a “dynamic unity”. Let’s go there. We call a thing a "unity" because we experience it as a whole thing. It has an inside and an outside and a border. It might be made up of other parts, other unities, even, and the border might actively exchange parts from outside & inside, but still we see it as a whole

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RAMPS – Ways to Affect Safety

RAMPS / / 7 minutes of reading

RAMPS — Affecting Safety Affecting safety, the sense of belonging — being valued & accepted — is about creating a stabilizing center-of-mass built around health. A note: none of what I have to say here is relevant if your organization ignores violence, or hasn’t already taken the steps necessary to end overt racism, sexism, age-ism, creed-ism, or nation-ism in its policies. Those require drastic action. Change that, or leave it, first. I mentioned it in passing before, about anger-less or

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The Camerata is Launched!

Change, Camerata, CCS / / 3 minutes of reading

Announcement: The Change-Harvesting Camerata is officially launched today! There’s a special launch offer. Read on, to get more info about the camerata itself, and find out the launch deal. A camerata — h/t Jess Kerr for that term — is a group of people working on a common problem, both together and separately. Part salon, part clubhouse, part Republic of Letters, part continuous colloquium, it provides a kind of interactive operational base for that community. A camerata is centered around

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