We can learn about how to create sustainable change in our organizations by looking at how forests come to be. READ: The Forest Succession Principle. ed.gr/dk2qw #NurtureChange

Obviously legibility is neither good nor bad by itself; it enables much good. E.g., the Internet, or air travel. But it also enables map/territory confusions of the kinds bureaucracies are famous for. Organic, illegible realities underly many social and natural processes.

“Legibility” as jargon was introduced by James C. Scott’s _Seeing Like a State_[0]. This book is great, but long, and Venkatesh Rao ☀️‘s A Big Little Idea Called Legibility[1] is an unusually able blog-length take. [0] yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030007… [1] ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-b…

OH: "... I was going to say 'COVID' but I said 'Kubernetes'..."

You could make significant progress acting on the assumption of the opposite of these items

Jimmy Judd TV-M not appropriate for all audiences. Finally, thanks to Ellen Grove and cat swetel for facilitating today's Tech Talk, and the panelists for their experience and insight: Jesse Alford - Jesse Thomas Alford Tiani Jones - Tiani Jones Wouter Lagerweij - Wouter Lagerweij

This is the first tweet of a great livetweet thread of a panel I was on just this morning. Thanks for the excellent livetweeting, Margaret!

I poured everything I had and learned into this talk. To the folks at Agile: Deliver who invited me, thanks. To the folks at Agile: Deliver who harassed me through the feedback system and the head conf dude who tried to "manage" me after. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 youtu.be/l2PVuRYLRj4

If you couldn't make last week’s #AgileTechTalks, "A New Age of XP” or just want to view it again, you can now watch the recorded session video. Moderated by cat swetel with our panel: Wouter Lagerweij Tiani Jones and Jesse Thomas Alford #XP #ExtremeProgramming #agile agilealliance.org/resources/sess…

Much dysfunction in software development stems from making it legible, in the Seeing Like A State sense. Legible development is capped at the value you can imagine at the beginning. Legible development also incentives ignoring important illegible properties like morale.

I figured I should sign in to leave crumbs. jessealford.com github.com/anEXPer My masto is listed as my website site, leaving it out in this here tweet in case the mad king does something to links to there again.