Gordon Brander

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Gordon Brander writes notes on software, design, creative practice, systems, and building living software.

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Copy a work of art #Art #Design #Software
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Aug 13, 2026
3 Horizons #Software #Design #Systems
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Aug 1, 2026
Decomplecting actors #Software #Design #Systems
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Jul 31, 2026
Decomplecting means using IDs #Software #Design #Systems
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Jul 30, 2026
Startups are waterfall #Software #Design #Systems
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Jul 21, 2026
Think about the game theory of coalitions #GameTheory #Software #Design
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Jul 18, 2026
Software and seeds #Software #Design #Systems
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Jun 26, 2026
Playing to your outs #Software #Design #Systems
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Jun 18, 2026
Coordination technologies #Software #Design #Systems
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Jun 17, 2026
What, so what, now what #Software #Design #Systems
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Jun 8, 2026
Software that gets distributed to every employee trends toward commodity #Software #Business #Technology
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May 29, 2026
Queues decouple producer from consumer #Software #Systems #Design
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May 11, 2026
Ecosystems are smarter than we are #Systems #Design #Software
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Oct 28, 2025
Outcome over representation #Software #Design #Systems
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Oct 28, 2025
Slowly, then all at once #Software #Design #Systems
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Oct 28, 2025
Systems are counterintuitive #Systems #Design #Software
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Oct 28, 2025
Structure by plot #Software #Design #Systems
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Oct 28, 2025
Story arc #Software #Design #Systems
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Oct 28, 2025
The Feynman method #Learning #Productivity #SoftwareDevelopment
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Oct 28, 2025
Time consciousness #Software #Design #Systems
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Oct 28, 2025
Three-act story structure #Writing #Storytelling #Creativity
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Oct 28, 2025
VUCA #Software #Design #Systems
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Oct 28, 2025
Write the press release #Software #Design #Writing
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Oct 28, 2025
When data is bad, use simple models #DataScience #MachineLearning #SoftwareDevelopment
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Oct 28, 2025
Zoom in, zoom out #Software #Design #Systems
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Oct 28, 2025