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Geoffrey Vickers was a seminal systems thinker, and his ideas on appreciative systems are formative on my understanding of the field. Posts on this blog are the output of appreciative engagement with what he called the flux of ideas and events that is forever washing over us.
Hi there. The main goal of this blog is to give me a target for longer form writing that comes out of the process of sense-making of the flux of ideas and events in my life. It might accidentally be read by you, but it's purpose is resolutely selfish. The audience is only nominal, a straw figure to aim at.
In a professional context, I'm inquiring into:
- the operational challenges of delivering customer value in delivery operations, mostly in technology contexts
- how Systems Thinking, Agile and the Toyota Production System succeed and fail to make improvements
- how VC-backed start ups succeed and fail to solve Enterprise problems
- how LLMs are making things better and worse in those contexts
And there may be some writing about architecture and the built environment, personal projects and the philosophy behind building technical stuff yourself, and whatever else catches my attention from the flux.
You can find me on LinkedIn here if you would like to talk about giving me money in exchange for my labour, and on bluesky at @isinc.bsky.social. Github link coming soon. rss feed for those who want to follow along.