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Ruth — of systems & design

@RuthMalan@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-16

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less

Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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RuthMalan
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · 4d ago

OH: “Being passionate about something, makes you exploitable”

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Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · 5d ago

I’ve been doing this systems stuff so long, I’ve forgotten things a decade ago incarnation of me knew/did lol

Totally forgot about this slide (swiped from the quoted tweet) from a conference talk I did:

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Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · Mar 08, 2026

#internationalwomensday

@debcha@saturation.social
How Infrastructure Works
https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-infrastructure-works-inside-the-systems-that-shape-our-world-deb-chachra/4ac5390bcd3d4868

@diana@hachyderm.io Learning System Thinking
https://bookshop.org/p/books/learning-systems-thinking-essential-non-linear-skills-and-practices-for-software-professionals-diana-montalion/c20f2cf47e1d19ba

@selketjah@mastodon.social Collaborative Software Design
https://bookshop.org/p/books/collaborative-software-design-how-to-facilitate-domain-modeling-decisions-evelyn-van-kelle/ee2d22318caff628

Forthcoming (exciting!!):

@testobsessed@ruby.social
Signals and Levers
https://bookshop.org/p/books/signals-levers-systems-thinking-tools-to-unblock-software-delivery-elisabeth-hendrickson/bf2d9d17012f909f

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Ruth — of systems & design
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Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

Next up in #PapersInSystems :

“The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments” by Fred E. Emery and Eric L. Trist (1965)

https://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/64/04702605/0470260564.pdf

Discussion will be led by @trondhjort@hachyderm.io — who has been bringing many of these classics in sociotechnical systems to broader attention in our field. Very excited that Trond will lead this!

Monday April 6, 1-2pm Eastern Time (US/Canada).

More info/sign up: https://ti.to/bredemeyer/causaltextureofenvironments

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026
“Do it without a system if you can”
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Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

mastodon.social
Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

If you ever wonder about my sense of humor, bear in mind that this was real… (Kulula was a South African airline)

(not recent… the last several years have changed our sense of airline safety…)

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Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

mastodon.social
Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

Everyone is looking for confirmation/reassurance that their thing, is the thing that survives…

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charity-majors_boris-tane-activity-7431120481639997440-RWIx

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Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · Feb 21, 2026

I don’t like the term reductionist because it hits like a negative label (exacerbated when used in a “them” way…)

but this is a short (7 minute) and useful introduction to some of the ideas emphasized in his (Patrick Hoverstadt) book on systems (Grammar of Systems)

(via @antlerboy@mastodon.social )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ_njaSaBE8

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Ruth — of systems & design
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Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · Feb 13, 2026

One of the things we think of as a downside of human interaction (disagreement, friction, the work it takes to understand and resolve, or not…) is also upside. Where power isn’t distorting too much, one person’s views aren’t being centered. There’s the need to get ideas (about the problem, and how to approach it) expressed in a way that conveys, which yields discovery & interwoven perspectives (across views — both in the sense of views of the system eg in sketches and models, and persons’ views)

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Ruth — of systems & design
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Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · Feb 01, 2026
“It turns out that operating at cross-odds creates friction, which is obvious. What’s not obvious is that this particular flavour of friction is incredibly valuable and deeply informative. When you know actors are working towards compatible goals and yet are operating at cross-odds, it forces you to consider the design space and the solution space in a more diverse and interesting way.” — @hazelweakly@hachyderm.io https://hazelweakly.me/blog/observations-of-leadership-part-two/
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Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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Ruth — of systems & design
Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social

Software And Systems Architecture, more or less Profile pic: drawing of me (gifted to me); upside down, as if in a reflection, with cloudy sky and little architecture drawing character hanging from frame

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@RuthMalan@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2025
“He [Werner Vogel] coins a term: verification debt. AI generates code faster than humans can comprehend it.” Earlier this year: “Those people may be churning out deliverables, but they are also racking up comprehension debt. No one understands what they are on about because it is not possible to derive rationale out of the output alone.” — @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/all-your-problems-are-people-problems-don-t-just-do-things-part-2
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