Jessica KerrGrowth Loops: circular causality is realA few hundred years ago, we decided that circular causality was a logical fallacy. All causes are linear. If something moves, then…Dec 30, 20186Dec 30, 20186
Jessica KerrYour Goals Are Holding You Back“Enter your concrete goals for the next six months.” This software is supposed to help your career. Seriously?Dec 19, 20181Dec 19, 20181
Jessica KerrShared Values are OverratedThe 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…Dec 17, 20181Dec 17, 20181
Jessica KerrMutual Purpose and Agreed-Upon MethodsI’ve long preferred to work on teams that base cooperation on shared values like inclusiveness, respect, and curiosity. Teams where…Nov 13, 20183Nov 13, 20183
Jessica KerrinThe CompositionHow I broke (and fixed) docs.atomist.comor, a week in the life of a programmerOct 18, 2018Oct 18, 2018
Jessica KerrinThe CompositionAdvancing the bridgeSoftware Development has moved forward a lot recently. Both on the code side and the runtime side, we’ve had huge advances.Sep 11, 20181Sep 11, 20181
Jessica KerrAscendencyWhat makes one system more organized than another? More developed, more … civilized? How can we measure advancement? In Ecology, the…Sep 2, 2018Sep 2, 2018
Jessica KerrReading: Ecology, the Ascendent PerspectiveComplexity in Ecological Systems. by Robert E. UlanowiczSep 2, 2018Sep 2, 2018
Jessica KerrinThe CompositionAlign 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…Aug 30, 2018Aug 30, 2018