Rogers Hall at Oregon State University Pointing to my picture as a Mechanical Engineering graduate. It’s been awhile.

Standing by my basement office/lab where I practically lived as a grad student. Rogers Hall Oregon State University Prophetic or ironic that it’s now the student AIAA room and I went into aerospace.

Caramelized onions and cannibalized onions are not the same thing.

We met with a Deming Master years back & were whining about the difficulty of ceasing inspection. He got frustrated and said (approx), "Deming's 14 Points are simple sentences to guide you through difficult topics. Deming isn't telling you to do anything stupid. Think!"

Turns out “New user interface “ means that the user wants a new interface screen and not that a new user wants an interface screen. Never underestimate the UX.

It’s not at all seasonally appropriate but I made Janssons Frestelse for dinner. Swedish Christmas favorite of potatoes, onions, anchovies and heavy cream. I did wait for the coldest day of the week.

There are only a few color choices for Tesla Model 3s so telling them apart could be an issue in a big parking lot. The solution seems to be to attach the front license plate. It’ll likely be the only one.

The book was created in community; lets read it like that as well! Post your favorite quotes and insights from the book using #CynefinBook. Then we can all journey together!

In a webinar today markup lines started appearing. The presenter asked the person to stop. A bit later this showed up in the chat “Sorry, am on the beach and a lizard just jumped on me.” Clearly not all virtual work is the same.

Cantilever beam on the streets of Corvallis designed by Nature to appeal to OSU trained stress analysts @BryonyDuPont

Today was Session 1 tutorial on Systems Theory at INCOSE IS2021. Really good. Looking forward to session 2 tomorrow. #cynefin #incoseis

Some taxonomies are useful for some purposes but not for others.

So, you want real-world examples of complex systems, accelerated learning organizations, safe-to-fail experiments, do you? Join the NY Complexity Lounge tomorrow & Trent Hone will talk about how the U.S. Navy (really?) demonstrates all that & more meetup.com/NYC-Complexity…

This store seems to think that Halloween this year calls for taking special precautions.

When Shakespeare said "winter of our disconnect" it related to Richard III. Today I learned that when Thoreau said "winter of their disconnect" he was talking about skunk cabbage. Just not the same.

37 second video. Pertinence of TOC in today's VUCA world by Philip Marris. New media format test: YouTube #short youtube.com/shorts/zNQZ_iR… #TheoryOfConstraints #VUCA #Goldratt

1/6: Based on actual industrial data, Kanban beats Waterfall and Scrum for total cost of software development and delivery! 🔥🔥🔥 Will simply switching to Kanban improve software development performance? 🧵

I just today discovered that not only are colocate and collocate different words with different meanings but they are pronounced differently as well. I had always thought it was just different spellings.