Kate Arms

How are we going to train senior people removes the middle?

My thoughts: we are going to have to rethink education to focus on holistic thinking and working from abstract principles as the default rather than expecting people to pick up the principles through years of detailed work.

The traditional career path for developers typically moved from junior roles focused on implementing straightforward features to mid-level positions handling more complex implementation work and ultimately to senior roles focused on architecture and systems thinking. 🧵 #AI #HR #Technology

This whole thread on the "sunk-cost" dangers of expertise and the need to keep rethinking at high levels of abstraction is a mirror to lots of the thoughts I have been having lately.

I can feel my brain rewiring itself again.

Anyone else?

Completely agree. Doing nothing is doing something. Let the mind wander

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Slower streets, calmer minds: How 20 mph speed limits could transform mental health There's a mental health treatment happening right outside your window - if you can hear it over the traffic.

Slower streets, calmer minds: How 20 mph speed limits could transform mental health studyfinds.org/traffic-nois...

“Skravlekopp”. I was given this a couple years ago by the Mayor of Baerum in Norway. It loosely translates as “gab cup”. It’s part of a national effort in Norway to fight loneliness and isolation. When you drink from it at a cafe, you’re inviting others to join you for a chat.

Slop Infrastructures 1 & 2 "Maybe the Human Part of Human Connection is Overstated." 💡This week, I'm trying something new. Starting today, and ending on Tuesday, I'll be e-mailing smaller sections of a single piece, Slop Infra...

“AI slop breaks down the inquiry and investigation into the world as it is… it circumvents any desire to understand the world because it offers us the immediate satisfaction of having a feeling about the world.”

mail.cyberneticforests.com/slop-infrast...

I haven’t figured out how I might use this platform.

Mostly right now I am following people doing interesting things are people-friendly urban planning.

Definitely an experiment.

The original logic was to counter the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

The unintended negative consequence is that “Year End Giving” is being pushed earlier in the year as Black Friday sales move earlier.

Everyone is trying to get the jump on everyone else, so everyone is noise.

I find it powerful to have a word and know that I participate in a process I believe works.

It helps me turn off the “drive change” and “make people do x” language that turns into manipulation or aggression.

Sharing my ideas in meetings, mentioning books I’m reading, inviting people to take a class I plan on taking around a shared problem space.

Musing aloud in team chats

I love your phrase “mostly succeeded”.

My experience was that once I hit “mostly succeeded”, the deepening process of getting from “mostly succeeded” to “almost completely succeeding” has been a joyful blossoming and each period of fallback gets shorter and more powerful for further growth.

What I love about strewing is that it deeply respects the autonomy of all the other agents in this system we inhabit.

What is hard about strewing is realizing that every action and non-action is a form of strewing.

What I strew is a direct reflection of who I am.

4/6

Strewing requires mental habits it took time to cultivate:

- Willingness to live with mess
- Not claiming credit for anything
- Not caring what gets picked up
- Not worrying about how what I put down gets used
- Trusting learning systems to self-correct
- Comfort leaving conversations open

3/6

It has taken me a long time to see how strewing works.

It’s about participation in the flow of the zeitgeist. It’s about knowing that students find teachers wherever they are as fast as they are ready.

It’s about not being attached to what gets picked up.

2/6

Love makes a mess of dying Soul Manifestos 2024 - #05 in a series

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An outdoor seating area resembling a modern architectural structure, with a group of people watching a performance or presentation on a screen. The setting is surrounded by trees, and the scene is illuminated by soft lighting.

A micro-theatre. Love it. Every park could have one.

I have always thought Whamaggedon was a grinchy-spirit game. This feels more fun and playful.

In my experience coaching people through overwhelm and burnout - 100% yes!

Systems Thinking immediately removes the thinker from the system. But we can’t get outside the systems we are part of. We need systems-embedded system-aware wisdom.

Pile of 6 books in front of a fireplace: The Force of Nonviolence byJudith Butler Racing to Justice by john a. powell My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem Awakening Together by Larry Yang Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh Unshakeable: Trauma-Informed Mindfulness for Collective Awakening by Jo-Ann Rosen

Haven’t yet figured out alt text for photos on bluesky. Trying again.

My self-directed learning curriculum for the rest of the year.

I’m looking to align my paid work more directly with the economic and social systems that are needed to prevent the human race self-terminating through destruction of our habitat.

It’s entirely possible that I have never enjoyed watching Jeff Goldblum as much as I did in Wicked.

Such a strong rendition of a charming conman.

His was the performance that surprised me most.

In my experience, depressed people care and don’t see how they can have impact.

I have found these simultaneously necessary for clients facing this lack of motivation.

1: seeing all people working on the same problem in other spaces as allies
2: doing what they can
3: community to grieve with

Hello, hello!

In 2001, I took a Dream Analysis class at Starr King School for the Ministry with Rev. Jeremy Taylor. As someone with severe aphantasia who had not remembered a dream in 15 years, the class was eye-opening. Rev. Taylor taught a form of interpretation in which everyone got insight from every dream.

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BASIC was my first programming language. Here’s to the visionaries and history makers!

RIP

This by CS Lewis hits.