Conway’s Law:
«[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.»
— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
Conway’s Law:
«[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.»
— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
This is my second migration on Mastodon, so I think an Introduction might be in order. I'm moving in to this account (that had lived independently, to test some of Mathstodon features) after astrodon.social is being sunset. Hope that Astrodon as a concept still lives!
I currently work in Systems Engineering for radio telescopes (in particular, the ALMA radio interferometer). I’ve also worked in software development and management for the SKAO observatory, and for the archive department at ESO. Of course, I'm also very interested in math (specially that having to do with system theory), so I'll try to get a bit stronger there.
Glad to see you all around!
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) für die Optimierung von Engineering Strategien
Deadline: 2025-07-13
Location: Germany, München, Bayern
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) für Methodenentwicklung für die Projektleitung
Deadline: 2025-07-13
Location: Germany, München, Bayern
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I'm still looking. I'm still at the #VA but I've lost: 2 data engineers, 1 system engineer, 1 cybersecurity engineer, my contracting manager (last friday, no notice) and our director just announced retirement.
I've been applying everywhere for relevant roles. Even in 2021, I had a reply response of around 20:1 . Now, ive put in probably 200. I've got nothing. (well, thats not true. weapons manufacture keeps pinging. no way no how)
Im looking for #cloud #systemsengineering #sitereliabilityengineering #cybersecurity #systemarchitect
DM and I'd be happy to send my resume or apply at a role you suggest.
Aside: stuff like this is why I think I'm in this situation. Basically, fake/AI resumes are drowning the market. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/fake-job-seekers-use-ai-to-interview-for-remote-jobs-tech-ceos-say.html
I saw this on HN this morning. And it seems terrible for everyone affected, well, except for the fake/AI users with batch apply scripts. Also explains LinkedIN jobs "submitted 1h ago, over 100 applied". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631384
Compendium of Nancy Leveson: STAMP, STPA, CAST and Systems Thinking
Although I don’t often mention or post about Leveson’s work, she’s probably been the most influential thinker on my approach after Barry Turner.
So here is a mini-compendium covering some of Leveson’s work.
Feel free to shout a coffee if you’d like to support the growth of my site:
https://buymeacoffee.com/benhutchinsonhttps://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/2908/Engineering-a-Safer-WorldSystems-Thinking-Applied
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/102747/esd-wp-2003-01.19.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://escholarship.org/content/qt5dr206s3/qt5dr206s3_noSplash_4453efa62859a16d187fa5e66d414ac2.pdf
https://escholarship.org/content/qt8dg859ns/qt8dg859ns_noSplash_e67040b78c1ff72e51b682bb23d8628a.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840608101478
https://doi.org/10.1145/7474.7528
http://therm.ward.bay.wiki.org/assets/pages/documents-archived/safety-3.pdf
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/108601/Leveson_A%20systems%20approach.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/Rasmussen-Legacy.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2015.1015623
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/issc03-stpa.doc
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2018.07.028
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/shell-moerdijk-cast.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/CAST-Handbook.pdf
https://psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/get_file.php?name=STPA_Handbook.pdf
https://psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JThomas-STPA-Introduction.pdf
https://cris.vtt.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/98296189/Complete_with_DocuSign_2024-1-2_STPA_guide_F.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/UPS-CAST-Final.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.100912
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/107502/974705860-MIT.pdf?sequence=1
https://proceedings.systemdynamics.org/2007/proceed/papers/DULAC552.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/nasa-class/jsr-final.pdf
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2556938
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2015.1015623
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/102833/esd-wp-2011-13.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article-abstract/15/3/272/727503?redirectedFrom=PDF
https://www.academia.edu/29657886/The_systems_approach_to_medicine_controversy_and_misconceptions
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3376127
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022522316000702
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/caib/issc-bl-2.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/ARP4761-Comparison-Report-final-1.pdf
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8102762
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2015.1011241
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1260/2040-2295.3.3.391
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/incose-04.pdf
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/78070242.pdf
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/102767/esd-wp-2004-08.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2014.1001445
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230017753/downloads/Kopeikin_AIAA_UnsafeCollabControl_v5.pdf
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/space2001-version2.pdf
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/90801/891583966-MIT.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/Bow-tie-final.pdf
https://cs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings232/597.pdf
https://a3e.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Risk-Matrix.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/21695067231192457
https://jsystemsafety.com/index.php/jss/article/download/44/41
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/compliance-with-882.pdf
https://meridian.allenpress.com/bit/article-pdf/47/2/115/1488089/0899-8205-47_2_115.pdf
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The ProLUG Big Book of Labs by Scott Champine is free with a Leanpub Reader membership! Or you can buy it for $20.00! http://leanpub.com/theprolugbigbookoflabs #SystemsEngineering #Ansible
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Just posted some instructions on how to run SysON on an Apple Silicon Mac… they make more sense to me than the official ones, that is for sure ;-)
https://juandesant.github.io/YANOTECH/run-syson-on-apple-silicon