So much talk about getting on the AI train, not enough about who's laying down the tracks.

Updated blog post: I see people starting to adopt the OST thinking and approaches, which is very pleasing. A question that comes up now and again, though, is how to scale the self-managing teams to a large organisation. I do get into this a bit in the Dysfunctions book, but go deeper in an old post

The first computers were human. Now, as computing has been woven into the very fabric of civilization, we are compelled to ask what it means to be human.

Organisational Dysfunction of the Day Deskilled by AI Context: The calculator took mental arithmetic. GPS took a sense of direction that used to build itself through years of navigating without help. Neither loss announced itself; the skill just stopped being exercised, then stopped being...

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

New blog post: This article has been brewing for years, and it was not really until I dug into the organisational dysfunctions that the importance of values and ideals became apparent. Training as a natural scientist and years of practising software engineering primed me to look at the laws that...

...keeps shifting. And the mechanism underneath it is not soft at all. It comes straight from 1950s biology: a concept called directive correlation, the same theory of active adaptation used to explain how living systems shape their environment instead of just reacting to it.

...a physicist is trained to distrust. It took me a long time to see what he actually meant. These are not aspirations bolted onto a structure for morale. They are structurally necessary, the thing that lets people with radically different values still cooperate when the ground itself...

...govern how systems behave, then predict from them. So when I first read Fred Emery on organisations, one word baffled me completely. Ideals. Not values. Ideals. Homonomy, nurturance, humanity, beauty. It read like something out of a self-help book, the kind of soft, unfalsifiable language...

New blog post: This article has been brewing for years, and it was not really until I dug into the organisational dysfunctions that the importance of values and ideals became apparent. Training as a natural scientist and years of practising software engineering primed me to look at the laws that...

Organization Dysfunctions - with @trond.hjorteland.com! In this episode, we explore how dysfunctional organizations' over-focus on metrics (like DORA) and frameworks (Agile/Scrum, Team Topologies), strips away context, prompting gaming, “everything is fine” reporting, and burnout.

– Mange ledere forventer en voldsom akselerasjon med KI. – Men det de fleste organisasjoner faktisk ser når de bare innfører verktøy, er en liten økning og så en flat kurve. 🥲 Forskerne mener at de som gjør størst suksess, er de som først tillater seg å jobbe *saktere*:

An absolute honour and privilege to be back on the Cyb3rSyn podcast, with Laksh's insightful questions and insights. Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did!