The Outsider – Tom Graves / Tetradian

Category: The Outsider

General notes on being an Outsider in many different ways

Changes coming

Posted on 31 December 2019 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider — No Comments ↓

New books, new strategy, new location, for a new decade: that’s me. And with it, big changes coming up for me, all within the first half of the coming year. In late January, there’ll be the launch of the first…

I’m still here…

Posted on 1 May 2019 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider — No Comments ↓

Yes, I know there hasn’t been much activity on this blog for quite a while now. But don’t worry. I’m still here, still busy as ever. It’s just that, right now, much of that work is necessarily appearing elsewhere. For…

Confirming the direction

Posted on 7 January 2019 by

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Yeah, it’s been a while since I wrote anything new here… – kind of overdue for Normal Service Will Be Resumed and all that…? But yes, I am still here, still working, still pushing onward. And gratified to see that, yes,…

Intimations of arrogance? – an addendum

Posted on 20 August 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, The Outsider — 3 Comments ↓

Carrying on from the previous post, with a bit of an explanation about why I’m becoming so much of ‘a grumpy old guy’… Here’s the blunt fact: I’m not a good thinker. I know that. Too many gaps in my knowledge,…

Intimations of arrogance from a grumpy old guy?

Posted on 12 August 2018 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, The Outsider — No Comments ↓

Okay, I admit it: I’m at real risk right now of becoming a grumpy old guy: Getting snappy at people on LinkedIn and all that. More than a fair bit of that phrase about “Will not suffer fools gladly”. Patience strained…

May Day, and a mayday for our world

Posted on 1 May 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider — 7 Comments ↓

And yeah, this is where it gets seriously scary. Not just for me: for just about everyone. I mentioned in the previous post that “I hate the money-economy”. It might be useful if I explained why? — Yes, this is May Day. Beltane,…

Maggie’s Farm

Posted on 18 January 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Power and responsibility, Society, The Outsider — 5 Comments ↓

We’re two days away from what will almost certainly be one of the greatest collective-blunders ever to impact the US, and possibly the world as well. Here in Britain, we have a similar collective-blunder that is fast approaching its endgame.…

Tagged with: bob dylan, economics, Enterprise architecture, RBPEA, Society

Normal Service Will Be Resumed…

Posted on 3 January 2017 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider — 4 Comments ↓

Yes, I’ve been quiet here for quite a while. Apologies for the absence and all that. Various reasons. One has been the un-joys that is the so-called ‘holiday season’ – a month-long hell of family, ghastly fake-music and faked-up pseudo-jollity everywhere, the…

Tagged with: chaos, Enterprise architecture, Futures, RBPEA, Society

Decisions, decisions – and an anniversary

Posted on 5 October 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, The Outsider — 7 Comments ↓

One of the more challenging aspects of reaching so-called ‘retirement age’ is how much it refocusses attention towards one’s legacy rather than the new. There’s so darned much in my back-catalogue that still needs finishing before I run out of…

On not-retiring – a quick status

Posted on 2 October 2016 by

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A quick status-report to say where I’m getting to so far with the business of ‘not-retiring‘. What I did in the previous post was to list the probable options for what I could/should do next. Given that the amount of…