Greater Than Code
Episode 034: Systems Thinking in the Real World
00:16 – Welcome to “Missives from the Future of Tech: Ladies’ Night Edition” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”
01:20 – Where the Lines Cross; Social Responsibility of Engineers
06:53 – Why We Do What We Do
09:03 – Surviving and Functioning For All Humans: Basic Social Support
16:20 – Preventing Infrastructure Decay and Advancing the Whole
19:54 – “The Cycle of Safety”
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
25:21 – Scarcity
30:15 – Where are we focusing?
33:25 – Reframing The Tragedy of the Commons; Gatekeeping
The Broken Promise of Open Source by Coraline Ada Ehmke
37:56 – Organizations as Business AND Schools
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
40:25 – Abundance and Barter Systems
Reflections:
Coraline: Access to technology as a human right.
Janelle: Where is all the knowledge in the world? Where does the knowledge flows? What are the gates that get in the way of knowledge flows?
Astrid: What would you do if money wasn’t a factor?
Jessica: Software has to hold the keys. It’s the closest thing to magic that we’ve ever had.
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