Trond Hjorteland
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Trond Hjorteland
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A student of open sociotechnical systems at Capra with a ghoulish sense of post-punk and a geeky interest in science and systems thinking. He/him.

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I look forward to returning to Berlin and the wonderful #KanDDDinsky conference this week. Really happy to be able to speak there again. I will challenge the approach many companies have to agile transformations

#systemsThinking #sociotechnical #selfOrganisation #agile #teamTopologies #orgDesign
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Looking forward to doing my new systems thinking talk again at the @javazone.bsky.social conference on Thursday. In Norwegian this time. We'll look at alternatives to the analytical method, to reductionism and determinism that are not well-suited to complex social systems. Harmful even.
#JavaZone
August 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Rehearsing the talk for @dddeu.bsky.social next week (yup, I actually do that! 😁) and it's coming together rather nicely.

I look forward to presenting my current take on systems thinking and its importance to us. We need it more than ever.
#DDDEU #systemsThinking
June 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Late, but happy entry. ☺️
March 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I am honoured to be asked to partake in the excellent FlowCon conference in April. Paris in the spring sounds just about right. 😊

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February 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Detailing the plans for a Search Conference next week with Capra Consulting.
Super excited to be able to put the training by Merrelyn Emery with the OST group in Canberra two years ago into real practice.
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#OpenSystems
January 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy New Year! I'll end this thread with a little homage to the guy who opened up this musical universe back in the late 80s. We have stayed good friends since and he's gone on to write, produce, and perform great stuff on his own. Starting with this record. Thanks @thetommyo.bsky.social! #MusicSky
January 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The collection would not have been complete without this band. As with The Cure, I was kind of late getting properly into them; not sure why to be honest. Joy Division inspired so many of the bands that followed with fantastic songs and the right amount of drama and bleakness. #MusicSky
December 31, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Coming towards the end of this thread now and to a band that I was surprisingly late to get into. Probably because I found them a bit too pop'y, till I came across this masterpiece from '82. Probably one of the darkest albums I know. The Cure's Pornography is hauntingly beautiful. #MusicSky
December 30, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Nick Cave has been around since the early days but hit home for me in a massive way with the Let Love In album. Remember listening to the vinyl in a record store and the opening track became an instant favourite, together with Red Right Hand. Especially live. Man, what a kicker. #MusicSky
December 29, 2024 at 1:36 PM
So far, the selection has been embarrassing male-heavy, so I'm glad my next is fronted by one of the most amazing female voices there is. Dead Can Dance has always been a favourite, which, together with the Cocteau Twins, had female leads that used their voices as proper instruments. Mesmerising.
December 28, 2024 at 11:16 AM
No surprise that I'm also fond of David Bowie and Iggy Pop. Especially when they collaborated. This was the first I bought and I absolutely love some to these songs. An his voice! Also remember well seeing him live for the first time in Oslo in the early 90s. What a man. So Blah-Blah-Blah.
December 27, 2024 at 11:36 AM
I think my first record was actually by a-ha. I got Hunting High and Low as a gift as a teenager and did not appreciate it until way later, much due to their second album, which is such a fantastic piece. Not a commercial hit as the first but Scoundrel Days has some fantastic pieces on it. #MusicSky
December 26, 2024 at 12:39 PM
The next one also came out in 1990 as the previous two (what a year!) and remember we were told it was a mix between Sisters and Mission. There are similarities, but Fields of the Nephilim found their style with Elizium. This is a proper album, not just a collection of songs. What a soundscape!
December 25, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Another band that popped up naturally on my radar back then was The Sisters of Mercy. Again, this is not my favourite album or theirs but this was the one I got into first when it came out in 1990. I'm more into their more experimental stuff from the 80s now. Still, this is a good one: Vision Thing!
December 24, 2024 at 8:46 AM
I got introduced to a couple of more bands by this guy, one of them being The Mission. The album I picked for this list was released later though, in 1990, because that's the one I still frequently put on. Carved in Sand is a beautiful album in so many ways.
December 23, 2024 at 9:04 AM
One of these black clad people though I needed to replace my misguided live for in hair metal by some real music and started lending me his Cult albums and this one made a particular lasting impact. (The Sonic Temple album was the gateway drug must be said).
December 22, 2024 at 12:51 PM
In the Open Systems Theory the claim and learning is that this type of joint optimization can only be reached by people doing the designs themselves.
November 27, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Art by Annette Müllender
November 10, 2024 at 11:00 AM
November 3, 2024 at 2:40 PM