Kate Arms
@katearms.bsky.social
How do we create organizations and communities in which both the larger systems and the people in them thrive?
Living the question.
Living the question.
How are we going to train senior people removes the middle?
My thoughts: we are going to have to rethink education to focus on holistic thinking and working from abstract principles as the default rather than expecting people to pick up the principles through years of detailed work.
My thoughts: we are going to have to rethink education to focus on holistic thinking and working from abstract principles as the default rather than expecting people to pick up the principles through years of detailed work.
The traditional career path for developers typically moved from junior roles focused on implementing straightforward features to mid-level positions handling more complex implementation work and ultimately to senior roles focused on architecture and systems thinking. 🧵 #AI #HR #Technology
March 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
How are we going to train senior people removes the middle?
My thoughts: we are going to have to rethink education to focus on holistic thinking and working from abstract principles as the default rather than expecting people to pick up the principles through years of detailed work.
My thoughts: we are going to have to rethink education to focus on holistic thinking and working from abstract principles as the default rather than expecting people to pick up the principles through years of detailed work.
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The traditional career path for developers typically moved from junior roles focused on implementing straightforward features to mid-level positions handling more complex implementation work and ultimately to senior roles focused on architecture and systems thinking. 🧵 #AI #HR #Technology
March 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The traditional career path for developers typically moved from junior roles focused on implementing straightforward features to mid-level positions handling more complex implementation work and ultimately to senior roles focused on architecture and systems thinking. 🧵 #AI #HR #Technology
This whole thread on the "sunk-cost" dangers of expertise and the need to keep rethinking at high levels of abstraction is a mirror to lots of the thoughts I have been having lately.
I can feel my brain rewiring itself again.
Anyone else?
I can feel my brain rewiring itself again.
Anyone else?
1. The greatest danger in any work that asks you to think systemically about the future is getting locked into the worldview that made sense to you when you first began, that you built your successful career on.
This "sunk-cost expertise" can easily become a set of shackles.
This "sunk-cost expertise" can easily become a set of shackles.
January 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This whole thread on the "sunk-cost" dangers of expertise and the need to keep rethinking at high levels of abstraction is a mirror to lots of the thoughts I have been having lately.
I can feel my brain rewiring itself again.
Anyone else?
I can feel my brain rewiring itself again.
Anyone else?
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Completely agree. Doing nothing is doing something. Let the mind wander
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
December 22, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Completely agree. Doing nothing is doing something. Let the mind wander
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Slower streets, calmer minds: How 20 mph speed limits could transform mental health studyfinds.org/traffic-nois...
Slower streets, calmer minds: How 20 mph speed limits could transform mental health
There's a mental health treatment happening right outside your window - if you can hear it over the traffic.
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December 1, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Slower streets, calmer minds: How 20 mph speed limits could transform mental health studyfinds.org/traffic-nois...
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“Skravlekopp”. I was given this a couple years ago by the Mayor of Baerum in Norway. It loosely translates as “gab cup”. It’s part of a national effort in Norway to fight loneliness and isolation. When you drink from it at a cafe, you’re inviting others to join you for a chat.
December 8, 2024 at 1:15 PM
“Skravlekopp”. I was given this a couple years ago by the Mayor of Baerum in Norway. It loosely translates as “gab cup”. It’s part of a national effort in Norway to fight loneliness and isolation. When you drink from it at a cafe, you’re inviting others to join you for a chat.
“AI slop breaks down the inquiry and investigation into the world as it is… it circumvents any desire to understand the world because it offers us the immediate satisfaction of having a feeling about the world.”
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Slop Infrastructures 1 & 2
"Maybe the Human Part of Human Connection is Overstated."
💡This week, I'm trying something new. Starting today, and ending on Tuesday, I'll be e-mailing smaller sections of a single piece, Slop Infra...
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December 8, 2024 at 12:33 PM
“AI slop breaks down the inquiry and investigation into the world as it is… it circumvents any desire to understand the world because it offers us the immediate satisfaction of having a feeling about the world.”
mail.cyberneticforests.com/slop-infrast...
mail.cyberneticforests.com/slop-infrast...
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A micro-theatre. Love it. Every park could have one.
December 1, 2024 at 12:53 PM
A micro-theatre. Love it. Every park could have one.
I have always thought Whamaggedon was a grinchy-spirit game. This feels more fun and playful.
People are posting about “losing” Whamaggeddon already so I’m starting #ReverseWhamageddon early; whoever hears it the most wins.
Rules:
A. Only one listen a day on purpose
2. Post a time, location and tally for each listen in the wild
And D) ENJOY IT: it’s a banger and George Michael was a dude.
Rules:
A. Only one listen a day on purpose
2. Post a time, location and tally for each listen in the wild
And D) ENJOY IT: it’s a banger and George Michael was a dude.
November 29, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I have always thought Whamaggedon was a grinchy-spirit game. This feels more fun and playful.
It’s entirely possible that I have never enjoyed watching Jeff Goldblum as much as I did in Wicked.
Such a strong rendition of a charming conman.
His was the performance that surprised me most.
Such a strong rendition of a charming conman.
His was the performance that surprised me most.
November 27, 2024 at 1:57 AM
It’s entirely possible that I have never enjoyed watching Jeff Goldblum as much as I did in Wicked.
Such a strong rendition of a charming conman.
His was the performance that surprised me most.
Such a strong rendition of a charming conman.
His was the performance that surprised me most.
In 2001, I took a Dream Analysis class at Starr King School for the Ministry with Rev. Jeremy Taylor. As someone with severe aphantasia who had not remembered a dream in 15 years, the class was eye-opening. Rev. Taylor taught a form of interpretation in which everyone got insight from every dream.
November 23, 2024 at 4:31 PM
In 2001, I took a Dream Analysis class at Starr King School for the Ministry with Rev. Jeremy Taylor. As someone with severe aphantasia who had not remembered a dream in 15 years, the class was eye-opening. Rev. Taylor taught a form of interpretation in which everyone got insight from every dream.
BASIC was my first programming language. Here’s to the visionaries and history makers!
RIP
RIP
November 21, 2024 at 4:49 PM
BASIC was my first programming language. Here’s to the visionaries and history makers!
RIP
RIP
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This by CS Lewis hits.
November 19, 2024 at 11:23 PM
This by CS Lewis hits.
I use phone calls the way this person uses voice notes. There’s something about the asynchronous nature of letters, though, that highlights the poignancy of connections than span time.
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My Guilty Pleasure: Voice Notes Give Me Butterflies | The Walrus
So much is said in the hesitations, the silences, the meanderings, the confessions in low, hushed tones
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November 20, 2024 at 1:16 PM
I use phone calls the way this person uses voice notes. There’s something about the asynchronous nature of letters, though, that highlights the poignancy of connections than span time.
thewalrus.ca/my-guilty-pl...
thewalrus.ca/my-guilty-pl...
