In my lifetime, we have experienced the equivalent of 20,000 years of change. Nonlinear change. Digital information systems have had a staggering effect on relational complexity.
Yet, we still approach software development in a mechanistic, industrial and reductionistic way. To design information systems, we need to think in systems.
I don’t just mean adopt Kubernetes. I mean change the structure of our thinking. As Robert Pirsig said,
“If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory.”
In this talk, we’ll explore “the rationality that produced” our current approaches. And describe mindshifts that can help us thrive in the systems age.
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About Diana Montalion
Diana is the author of the O’Reilly book, Learning Systems Thinking: Essential Nonlinear Skills & Practices for Software Professionals. She has twenty years experience engineering and architecting software systems for organizations including Stanford, The Gates Foundation, Memorial Sloan Kettering and Teach For All. She has served as Principal Systems Architect for The Economist and The Wikimedia Foundation. Her company, Mentrix, publishes learning materials for aspiring nonlinear thinkers and builds modern software systems for diverse clients.
Diana lives in the Hudson Valley (New York, USA) with three dogs, one cat and nine chickens.
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About the Conference
Entering its 18th year, Emerging Tech East (formerly Philly ETE) brings world-class speakers to speak about leading-edge technologies being used today, and emerging technologies that will be important for attendees to know about in the near future. Over the last two decades, ETE has become one of the premier gatherings of developers.
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