Invitation to webinar with Laïla Bougriâ: Debug your thinking

Hey! 😀

I invite you to the next webinar for Architecture Weekly paid subscribers.

This time, a special guest, my friend Laïla Bougriâ, will tell us how to debug our thinking.

When I saw Laïla giving this talk as a keynote at this year’s NDC London, I was impressed, but the best commentary was that I heard a guy sitting behind me saying loudly to his friend: “Wow, that was a great talk!”. And it was, I think, essential to building a mental model for solving problems if we want to be architects.

Here’s what Laïla by herself wrote about her talk:

There’s a myriad of complexity involved in building systems. However, two decades in software engineering taught me what truly makes or breaks a system: decisions. It’s not the programming language, the data store, the deployment model, or [insert your favorite tech here]. It’s about the decisions made and the ripple effects they cause. We spend endless hours trying to keep up with the latest and greatest in an industry that sprints faster than a caffeinated cheetah... But how much time was invested in questioning, improving, or, essentially, debugging our thinking process?

How do you structure your decisions, and how do they affect the software you build? When suboptimal decisions occur, do you reflect on the decision-making process itself? I've spent the last few years debugging my decision-making thought process, placing breakpoints to inspect which assumptions got me here and what alternatives I may have missed. As a result, my thought process became much more structured and streamlined, leading to better-balanced decisions. Join me in this session to explore how critical thinking can transform our decision-making process and elevate the quality of the solutions we build for our users.

Laïla Bougriâ is a software engineer and solution architect with over 15 years of experience in the .NET space. She's a Microsoft Azure MVP and frequent speaker at conferences around the world. Currently, Laila is busy building NServiceBus at Particular Software and solving distributed riddles. When she's not immersed in code, Laila enjoys indulging in her favorite pastime - knitting! She finds that tangling the yarn into beautiful patterns helps untangle her thoughts.

Laïla is also one of my favourite speakers about messaging architectures. Yet, this talk won’t be about messaging but the general mind tooling for solving problems. I’m thrilled that she agreed to do the webinar for our community.

You should not miss it!

The webinar will happen on Thursday, March 28th, at 6 PM CET (UTC+1) and last 1-1.5h depending on the number of questions.

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Feel invited, and see you there!

Cheers!

Oskar