Holistic Balance & Social Systems. My Talk to Software Engineers & Community Builders in Italy, 2016
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My presentation at the elgg camp in Pesaro, Italy (2016).
Elgg is a software framework (elgg.org) used to build web applications with a social focus, such as my site: https://www.ureka.org.
In this presentation i shared a brief introduction to some principles of holistic balance and how they apply to life and more specifically to software and systems engineering. This topic can easily stretch to cover an entire week or longer, so I simply focused on some of the main points and an overview for those who may not presently be thinking in a similarly holistic way to consider the ideas involved.
This was the first time I had publicly spoken in about 16 years - so I think I did pretty well :).
What do you think?
Wanted to pull that nugget o' wisdom out for anyone who doesn't watch the presentation. I think a greater understanding of/respect for this single statement would do wonders for the myriad of messes society is finding itself in (without regard to the element of cause and effect--as though no such principle exists in the observable universe).
Excellent examples at the end, btw. I think even the average individual with no interest in software whatsoever has had some degree of run-in (and subsequent confusion) with why certain content is flagged as spam, particularly on YouTube, when it was clearly not intended as such.
And I never would have guessed it's been 16 years. Thank you for presenting!
Thankyou for your kind words. Yes, the ending of denial is the most important first step we need to take to fix our problems - I agree 100%.
There was actually an engineer from Google present in the audience and I spoke with him afterwards about the issue and he admitted there was a problem, but it was a bit like talking to a member of the CIA (honestly) - where he was very cautious about saying much at all and I could feel he just wanted to get away.
Well, actually, the previous presentation was at university and I hadn't done the work needed to give the talk.. lol. This time I was a lot more relaxed and conscious of the topics involved. Being interested in the topic, plus also taking time to listen to emotions are the keys to good public speaking, I find.
I followed you btw. :)
Well I am a business grad , I think it is good, It has changed our business and world .
Good post !
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