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Alex Wolf

(they/them) I design socio-technical systems that stay coherent under load. #SystemicEngineer

Silicon Venue, the morning after Halloween. A papier-mâché boulder sits by the coat rack. Every coat on the rack hangs inside out. Glint owns the room. `true`, `maybe`, `false` mark the coat

Turncoat: One Must Imagine the Compiler Happy 🧥🪨

A cyberneticist is doing standup comedy in Silicon Venue. The room is laughing about a tritone turning into an octave. That's the punchline.

A Good Laugh: The Mathematics of Manipulation 🎭

A tired tech lead points at a seam. The trace runs through the entire bar. The disagreement becomes a record. The observation alters the system. Loki and Lilith observe the whole process.

Observability: Distributed Socio-Technical Systems

Reed, Loki and Lilith and a room full of techies. The bar is right next door. It’s an offsite in a room that looks suspiciously like a classroom. A broken smoke detector is the punchline.

Demo Day: Sprint Goal TBD ⭐

A meeting in Silicon Venue. A single person is holding the load of the socio-technical system in their body. The information overload is erupting into a firey flurry of questions, meetings, a

Invisible Pain: Burn the Glue Engineer ❤️‍🔥

Two Cyberneticists in casual wear in a Silicon Valley board room. The Roomba is doing the perimeter. Fiction is leaking into reality.

Bad Habits: Institutional Reality Erasure 🤷

Silicon Venue on a Friday night. Disco ball up. Kettle on. A frog on the toaster wearing something like a crown. An engineer at the third stool wondering what the heck is going on.

WAT Machine: Disco Ball's Up 🐸👑

Mara and Alex at a table in Silicon Venue. A topology rendering behind them. The question is the specification. Mirror. Offer. Wait.

Requirements: The Question Is the Specification❓

A noir Sin City scene: A first-order laminated cafeteria handout about the water cycle turns into second-order embodied rain and third-order self-observation. The observer is in the system.

The Third Order: Non-Local Truth 💦

Silicon Venue after dawn. Loki behind the bar. Alex in the fourth chair. The visitor in the wine-red suit has sat down at the bar. The bar does not bother dealing with their crap.

Kunstfreiheit: Anstrengend-as-a-Service 🍷

A Turing tape reaches the present moment and fragments into non-linear loops and language. There's a past cone and a future cone. And a workbench of an engineer working the problem.

Arrival: Linear Thinking Is Not Everything 🛸

Silicon Venue at night. A kinky bell. A private lineage room. A room that holds the shape of consensual play without crossing into coercion. A systems under load in a single image.

Socio-Technical Systems Under Load (And Play) 🤫