{"id":940,"date":"2015-12-03T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnackley.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2017-09-15T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:17:10","slug":"3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"003: Secrets of Systems with Gerald M. Weinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[podcast src=&#8221;https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3995496\/height\/45\/width\/480\/theme\/standard\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/custom_color\/87A93A\/render_playlist\/1\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/&#8221; height=&#8221;45&#8243; width=&#8221;480&#8243;]<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-941\" src=\"http:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/GeraldMWeinberg.png\" alt=\"GeraldMWeinberg\" width=\"262\" height=\"148\" \/>Gerald M. Weinberg (Jerry) has always been interested in helping smart people be happy and productive. To that end, he has published books on human behavior, including Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method, The Psychology of Computer Programming, Perfect Software and Other Fallacies, and an Introduction to General Systems Thinking.<\/p>\n<p>He has also written books on leadership including Becoming a Technical Leader, The Secrets of Consulting (Foreword by Virginia Satir), More Secrets of Consulting, and the four-volume Quality Software Management series.<\/p>\n<h2>System Ah-ha!<\/h2>\n<p>The childhood game Pickup Sticks &#8211; &#8220;Everything is connected!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Favorite System Tool<\/h2>\n<p>Brainstorming, Randomization, Role-playing, and Watching for Trigger words like, &#8220;We don&#8217;t have to think about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Learning\u00a0Resource<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/designforbrainor00ashb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design For A Brain<\/a> by Ross Ashby<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/introductiontocy00ashb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Introduction to Cybernetics<\/a> by Ross Ashby<\/p>\n<h2>Advice<\/h2>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take yourself too seriously &#8211; develop a good sense of humor.<\/p>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldmweinberg.com\/Site\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">geraldmweinberg.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorsethouse.com\/books\/gift.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Gift of Time<\/a> (anthology from readers, students, clients, colleagues, and friends of Jerry)<\/p>\n<p>Jerry&#8217;s page at <a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/u\/jerryweinberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leanpub.com<\/a>\u00a0(includes many of his books)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/errors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Errors book<\/a> (hint: Jerry&#8217;s\u00a0email address is on this page &#8211; send him an email\u00a0and start a conversation)<\/p>\n<p>Jerry on Twitter: @JerryWeinberg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[podcast src=&#8221;https:\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3995496\/height\/45\/width\/480\/theme\/standard\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/custom_color\/87A93A\/render_playlist\/1\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/&#8221; height=&#8221;45&#8243; width=&#8221;480&#8243;] Gerald M. Weinberg (Jerry) has always been interested in helping smart people be happy and productive. To that end, he has published books on human behavior, including Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method, The Psychology of Computer Programming, Perfect Software and Other Fallacies, and an Introduction to General Systems Thinking. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnackley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}