Design-thinking

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September 27, 2026
The ambiguity of state: facts, interpretations and perspectives
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Is there an objective state?
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September 6, 2026
The ambiguity of nouns: absolutisms, transformations and nominalisations
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Is every noun the same kind of thing?
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October 27, 2025
The ambiguity of naming
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Why naming is hard, and can even be dangerous?
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October 20, 2025
Code, knowledge and "AI"
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What is the relationship between "AI" and waste?
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October 6, 2025
The Inverse Matrix problem
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Are we trapped in Inversed Matrix?
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August 22, 2025
The ambiguity of architecture decision records
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Is a "decision recording" what we are really looking for?
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August 7, 2025
The knowledge gravity problem
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Is there a force driving our systems towards complexity?
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August 4, 2025
The ambiguity, the curse and the fallacy of domain model
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Is it possible to "apply" Entity Component System (ECS) thinking to System Design?
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July 12, 2025
Time, angle and depth: dimensions in software design
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Can we use physical qualities while reasoning about systems?
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July 1, 2025
Easy will make you dizzy?
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Are we losing something important while getting better tools?
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March 30, 2025
Evolve, don't hack
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Where is the difference between evolving and hacking?
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March 24, 2025
Context Segregation Principle
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is there a single unified way of looking at reality?
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May 15, 2024
The law of eventual composition
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What happens when we split things up?
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April 6, 2024
The ambiguity of code
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How do we understand "the code"?
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March 10, 2024
The ambiguity of interfaces
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How does need-driven thinking shape the way we design?
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February 29, 2024
Inverse Bruce Lee maneuver
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How many kicks should an engineer know?
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January 6, 2024
From concepts to architecture
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Does software architecture depend on the ideas?
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October 24, 2023
The ambiguity of composition
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How can we represent composition?
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September 17, 2023
The ambiguity of software architecture
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What do we mean by "software architecture"?
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August 24, 2023
The ambiguity of documentation
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Is a documentation only a manual?
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August 2, 2023
New tools, old rules
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Does "old" always remain unattractive?
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July 20, 2023
Concepts, Entities, Data
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What is the relationship between all three of them?
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July 17, 2023
How do errors evolve?
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Compile-time, run-time - what is next in the evolution?
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July 2, 2023
I, interface
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Have we misunderstood interfaces?
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June 7, 2023
Overdebugging
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Are you addicted to debugging?
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May 15, 2023
Concept maps
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Why are we hiding the transformational nature of the problems?
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April 23, 2023
Rethinking "missingness"
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How can we model absence?
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March 30, 2023
Modularity Uncertainty Heuristic
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Can broken modularity be easily observed and easily fixed at the same time?
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March 12, 2023
"Solution-Probleming"
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What one could learn from a broken coffee grinder?