Layer Aleph is a crisis engineering firm practicing the art of restructuring core technical systems and organizational functions during times of peak urgency. When time and public trust are limited, Layer Aleph can help an organization make big changes that are simultaneously necessary and extremely risky. Layer Aleph can work with your team quickly and quietly to find a secure path forward. Most importantly, Layer Aleph can offer you straightforward answers and fixes to complex, urgent problems.
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Layer Aleph partner M Dickerson on the matter of organization change, crises, and "digital service" teams: https://lnkd.in/gDp_YwCC
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There are dates for the next open-enrollment Layer Aleph "Crisis Engineering" workshop: July 30th - August 1st, 1000h-1600h EDT (UTC-4). If you have been on the waiting list, you've already received an email. Signups close July 19th, a week from today. Crisis Engineering is our level-best effort to package the skills, perspective, and behaviors that have worked best for Layer Aleph. Our firm has spent more than eight person-decades working to tame complex systems and drag organizational-change efforts past concrete milestones. Most of the time, we've been the effort that's called in after (all) other approaches have failed. Our approach works under trying and difficult circumstances. Our practice is drawn from the combination of our lived experience across organizations of every size, and what relevant empirical study we can find in sociology, organizational dynamics, and complex systems management. We iteratively preserve what works and discard what has not. Then we do our best to condense and pass it forward in a three day workshop format. Please come join us, and tell someone else. https://lnkd.in/gQBx6TZ8
Enrollment is now open for our next Crisis Engineering workshop July 30 - August 1, online. Sign up on our website https://lnkd.in/eiBFPJ2A
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By way of Tamara Srzenti? MS MBA, I am making two appearances at the "Creative Bureaucracy Festival" in Berlin tomorrow. In the keynote I will do my best to give away one of our best Layer Aleph trade secrets for making durable change in an organization. The secret is that most of the time you can't. Organizations are the same as people in that the only time it is possible to make a directed change to culture or habits is when the status quo has become utterly unsustainable. "It's bad" is not enough; the status quo is always "bad" to you. There must be an existential threat. If there is none, you are wasting your effort. This fact doesn't play well with the type of "civic tech" mindset which is about "I thought up a thing that I want to do and now all I have to do is get an 8000 person bureaucracy to do what I want." Thus, most people will not listen, and the secret will remain safe. The events are here: https://lnkd.in/gHsvCTMq I think you can watch a stream for free, although the time zone is not exactly convenient to the US.
Layer Aleph partner M Dickerson is keynoting the "Creative Bureaucracy Festival" tomorrow in Berlin, and handing out one of our trade secrets for free. If you're in Berlin, don't miss it.
By way of Tamara Srzenti? MS MBA, I am making two appearances at the "Creative Bureaucracy Festival" in Berlin tomorrow. In the keynote I will do my best to give away one of our best Layer Aleph trade secrets for making durable change in an organization. The secret is that most of the time you can't. Organizations are the same as people in that the only time it is possible to make a directed change to culture or habits is when the status quo has become utterly unsustainable. "It's bad" is not enough; the status quo is always "bad" to you. There must be an existential threat. If there is none, you are wasting your effort. This fact doesn't play well with the type of "civic tech" mindset which is about "I thought up a thing that I want to do and now all I have to do is get an 8000 person bureaucracy to do what I want." Thus, most people will not listen, and the secret will remain safe. The events are here: https://lnkd.in/gHsvCTMq I think you can watch a stream for free, although the time zone is not exactly convenient to the US.
We at Layer Aleph are optimists on AI, as in, its misapplication is surely going to create new and interesting catastrophic failures of complex systems.
A thing that happens with generative AI is that most people can see that when it tries to do *their* job, the results are mediocre at best. At the same time, they think it is good enough to replace *other* jobs. (See also, "Gell-Mann amnesia.") I wrote a guess at why that might be. https://lnkd.in/gXxxC8Qa
Where do SREs come from? We're not sure, but we wish there were more of them in the world. Here's M Dickerson's curriculum for teaching undergraduates about complex systems. https://lnkd.in/eNZysqYe