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Jessica Kerr

Growth Loops: circular causality is real

A few hundred years ago, we decided that circular causality was a logical fallacy. All causes are linear. If something moves, then…

5 min readDec 30, 2018

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Your Goals Are Holding You Back

“Enter your concrete goals for the next six months.” This software is supposed to help your career. Seriously?

2 min readDec 19, 2018

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Jessica Kerr

Shared Values are Overrated

The other day, I heard a story about a leadership retreat where the goal was to agree upon shared values. They held a vote, and lo, there…

2 min readDec 17, 2018

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Jessica Kerr

Mutual Purpose and Agreed-Upon Methods

I’ve long preferred to work on teams that base cooperation on shared values like inclusiveness, respect, and curiosity. Teams where…

3 min readNov 13, 2018

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Jessica Kerr

Symmathecist (n)

A quick definition, without the narrative

2 min readOct 25, 2018

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Symmathecist (n)

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Jessica Kerr
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The Composition

How I broke (and fixed) docs.atomist.com

or, a week in the life of a programmer

11 min readOct 18, 2018

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How I broke (and fixed) docs.atomist.com

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The Composition

Advancing the bridge

Software Development has moved forward a lot recently. Both on the code side and the runtime side, we’ve had huge advances.

3 min readSep 11, 2018

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Ascendency

What makes one system more organized than another? More developed, more … civilized? How can we measure advancement? In Ecology, the…

4 min readSep 2, 2018

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Ascendency

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Reading: Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective

Complexity in Ecological Systems. by Robert E. Ulanowicz

5 min readSep 2, 2018

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The Composition

Align the stars (programmatically)

Yesterday I was ready to get some changes into master, so I merged in the latest and opened a PR. But NO, the build on my pull request…

5 min readAug 30, 2018

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Jessica Kerr

Jessica Kerr

Symmathecist, developer, speaker, mother, crazy nut. Atomist. Learning and growing. All tweets are mine, licensed CC0. she/her

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