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Story time…
As an Enterprise Architect one thing I find myself thinking about often is: vision. If it isn’t obvious I mean the kind of vision that relates to seeing into the future—not the kind that relates to my ever increasing reading glasses collection. Vision—for me—is one of those skills that fit in a special category that…
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Shower Curtain Wisdom
Right before the start of the pandemic my family and I had what is best called—in the context of work—a “health journey”. It involved keeping areas of our living space sanitized for three or four months. I bought new white towels that could stand up to being washed on the sanitize cycle, a new inner…
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Going Fast
“We need to go faster”—Everybody who isn’t an engineer about ANYTHING they want to create or fix. There is an interesting phenomenon in the development and technology world I have seen over the years: when a team / organization / company has adequate time and resources they create processes and methods for getting business tasks…
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Indispensable
“They’ll never get rid of you,” is something I have heard many times in my career. My usual response is something like “They can, they might, and in certain circumstances they very much should”—but that is a discussion for another time. What I wanted to talk about here was the idea of being indispensable. Once…
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Going around the Corners
First things first—I have no idea if this quote is real or if it is some mashup derived from my life, history, or if I just imagined it: “Anyone can drive a car at 200mph in a straight line, it is going around the corners that is the hard part” —Nigel Mansell (maybe). Whenever I…