Mental-models

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August 22, 2025
The ambiguity of architecture decision records
design-thinking domain-driven-design language-patterns design-patterns software-architecture mental-models communication knowledge-working balancing-coupling collaboration software-teaming understanding
Is a "decision recording" what we are really looking for?
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August 7, 2025
The knowledge gravity problem
design-thinking domain-driven-design language-patterns design-patterns object-oriented-design functional-programming software-architecture mental-models communication knowledge-working balancing-coupling
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
design-thinking domain-driven-design language-patterns design-patterns object-oriented-design functional-programming software-architecture mental-models communication knowledge-working
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
design-thinking domain-driven-design language-patterns design-patterns object-oriented-design functional-programming software-architecture mental-models communication knowledge-working
Can we use physical qualities while reasoning about systems?
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July 1, 2025
Easy will make you dizzy?
design-thinking tools domain-driven-design language-patterns design-patterns object-oriented-design functional-programming software-architecture mental-models communication knowledge-working
Are we losing something important while getting better tools?
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February 10, 2025
The ambiguity of problems
theory-of-contraints software-teaming lean the-goal model modeling mental-models representations knowledge-working ambiguity misconceptions coding abstractions language product-engineering
What if problems whisper to us?
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January 3, 2025
Functions (and facts) describe the world
model modeling mental-models representations knowledge-working abstractions exploration fsharp fsharp-advent-calendar functional paradigms state-machines event-sourcing event-driven events event-storming domain-driven-design software-design
Can everything be modeled with this pair?
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December 10, 2024
Abstracting over people
model modeling mental-models representations knowledge-working ambiguity misconceptions abstractions language language-patterns peopleware people-skills team-building leadership
How to model people?
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November 12, 2024
The ambiguity of objects
model modeling mental-models representations knowledge-working ambiguity misconceptions coding abstractions language language-patterns object-oriented-design messaging functional-design
Are objects essentially bad?
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September 29, 2024
Representing knowledge: what, how and why
model modeling development-process mental-models representations knowledge-working ambiguity misconceptions coding abstractions language language-patterns
What are the different levels of representing knowledge?
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September 11, 2024
The ambiguity of team work
model modeling development-process mental-models representations leadership ambiguity misconceptions knowledge knowledge-working
Heads or hands?
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July 26, 2024
Dogmatic engineers and a product
growing-software heuristics mental-models software-architecture product-engineering architecting perspectives
Why is it important to broaden our perspective?
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June 30, 2024
Map, don't ask
functional-programming object-oriented-programming design-patterns growing-object-oriented-software heuristics mental-models composition
Why you shouldn't peek inside a...?
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January 6, 2024
From concepts to architecture
systems-thinking programming modeling model contexts representations mental-models heuristics principles patterns design-thinking concepts decisions software-architecture architecture collaboration
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
object-oriented functional programming modeling model contexts representations mental-models heuristics principles patterns design-thinking concepts
Is a documentation only a manual?
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August 2, 2023
New tools, old rules
architecture object-oriented functional programming modeling model contexts representations mental-models heuristics principles patterns design-thinking contracts service-oriented microservices
Does "old" always remain unattractive?
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July 20, 2023
Concepts, Entities, Data
architecture object-oriented functional programming modeling model contexts representations mental-models heuristics principles patterns design-thinking contracts service-oriented microservices blasphemy database-driven-design table-driven-development
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
oop object-oriented programming roles language modeling model contexts representations mental-models heuristics blasphemy principles patterns design-thinking
Have we misunderstood interfaces?
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June 7, 2023
Overdebugging
behavior specification intent model representations mental-models principles patterns design-thinking
Are you addicted to debugging?
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May 15, 2023
Concept maps
programming paradigms language modeling model trade-offs representations mental-models domain-driven-design visual-modeling principles patterns design-thinking
Why are we hiding the transformational nature of the problems?
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April 23, 2023
Rethinking "missingness"
programming paradigms language modeling model trade-offs representations mental-models discipline SOLID GRASP principles patterns design-thinking
How can we model absence?
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March 30, 2023
Modularity Uncertainty Heuristic
programming paradigms language modeling model trade-offs metaphors representations mental-models discipline modularity coupling cohesion perspectives architecture design-thinking
Can broken modularity be easily observed and easily fixed at the same time?
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March 12, 2023
"Solution-Probleming"
programming paradigms language modeling problem-solving modeling model trade-offs representations mental-models discipline aspects perspectives architecture design-thinking
What one could learn from a broken coffee grinder?
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March 5, 2023
I don't know
programming paradigms language modeling problem-solving modeling model code representations mental-models discipline aspects perspectives
Is there a benefit of not knowing?