System Smarts - System Design With John Ackley

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 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. System Ah-ha! The childhood game Pickup Sticks - "Everything is connected!" Favorite System Tool Brainstorming, Randomization, Role-playing, and Watching for Trigger words like, "We don't have to think about that." Learning Resource Design For A Brain by Ross Ashby An Introduction to Cybernetics by Ross Ashby Advice Don't take yourself too seriously - develop a good sense of humor. Contact geraldmweinberg.com A Gift of Time (anthology from readers, students,

Curtis Stone is an urban farmer, author, speaker and consultant. His area of expertise is in quick growing, high value annual vegetables for direct consumer market streams. His book, The Urban Farmer demonstrates organic intensive techniques with a focus on business and systems to streamline labour and production. Favorite System Tool Smart phone (with Siri) and Spreadsheets SketchUp Learning Resource The Tai Lopez Show Smart Passive Income with Pat Flynn Permaculture Voices Podcast with Diego Footer Advice Start small and make it tight before expanding. Contact The Urban Farmer by Curtis Stone (book website) GreenCityAcres.com ProfitableUrbanFarming.com The Urban Farmer Show on PermacultureVoices.com podcast Twitter: @GreenCityAcres Instagram: greencityacres

Kate Erickson is a creator, engager and implementer over at EOFire, a 7-day a week podcast that interviews today's most inspiring and successful entrepreneurs. She is also the host of Kate's Take: The EOFire Audio Blog and author of The Fire Path: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Your Online Business. Kate is passionate about helping entrepreneurs create freedom in their business and life through developing systems and processes that can help their business scale and grow. System Ah-ha! As a child, Kate actively organized her play groups - making sure things were in the right place so they worked together. Favorite System Tool SweetProcess.com Learning Resource Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown Advice "Just start ...take that one first step." Contact The Fire Path by Kate Erickson Kate's Take Episode 103 on Systems EOFire.com Entrepreneur on Fire podcasts (Kate's Take and Entrepreneur On Fire)  

“System Smarts” is a podcast about System Design. Every week, I’ll bring you an interview with a system designer from a broad range of industries and areas of interest. These personal views of systems for business and life have expanded my notions of what systems are and can be. Together, we will explore how entrepreneurs design business systems that free up more time and let them focus on their truest value. We will also hear how systems thinking has changed their life for the better. I’ve been designing and developing software-intensive systems for 30 years. I got switched onto systems engineering about a decade ago when I led a failed attempt to enter a national robotics challenge. And I've been studying and applying system design ever since. I've owned my own consulting practice and faced all the challenges of building and operating systems for a startup business. A few years ago, got certified to do Permaculture design which led to understanding natural systems and how we can improve business systems