Alex Ptakhin

@mayintoronto@beige.party no, no, listen to Alex, don't use OKRs at all. More harm, more damage. In my native language, OKRs have the same abbreviation as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It explained everything!

@mayintoronto@beige.party thank you! Subscribed! ❤️

Sometimes I see "European Digital Sovereignty" and "AWS" in one partnership sentence. No, sorry, you can pick only one from them.

@mayintoronto@beige.party Cat bless us! In Cat we trust:)

– Are you part of the problem or the solution?
– Both.
– ...??

We’re all in the same system that created the problem. That’s the uncomfortable truth. Here’s the paradox:
– Systems regularly face challenges they weren’t designed to handle
– Yet we keep using reductionism—treating entities as just sums of parts while ignoring how those parts interact

Reductionism searches for the root cause. But changing a single thing in one team can affect the other team in surprising ways. Holistic thinking reveals that there may be no single root, but cascading effects in which one problem triggers others, compounding until the system destabilizes.

Next time you hear "root cause," ask: what if there isn’t one?

#systemsthinking #complexsystems #holism #organizationaldesign

Very sorry to hear about the tragedy at CSD in Berlin. Sad that these events forced me to start writing again and change the direction of my writing after months of thoughtful pause. I'm afraid we'll meet more similar events soon. And it would not be only immigrants' stories, but the rise of domestic violence stories, where we have overfilled female shelters in Germany, declining overall economic stability, and poverty.

Welcome to the world of Bluetooth headset vulnerabilities. "[We] discovered the custom Bluetooth protocol called RACE... pairing was not required. As such, an attacker within Bluetooth range can connect to the device and manipulate RAM and flash contents without prior authentication."

https://insinuator.net/2025/12/bluetooth-headphone-jacking-full-disclosure-of-airoha-race-vulnerabilities/

Still, the same procrastination-panic feelings about what to write in each 360 performance review for many people to cause less harm within the harmful processes

@mayintoronto@beige.party Oh, no! Supporting you. Have you survived the winter?

If new AI browsers can help get rid of pop-ups over pop-ups across the whole internet, it might be worth a shot. Or not. And have a good Monday! #ai

Mood of moving to new apartments in Germany (thanks to Maria)

For introvert leaders, if your party is not like this, don't call me.

p.s. Okay, I still can occasionally come...