The Outsider – Tom Graves / Tetradian

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General notes on being an Outsider in many different ways

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 — No 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

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider — No Comments ↓

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…

More on not-retiring

Posted on 22 September 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing, Society, The Outsider — 9 Comments ↓

This one’s a follow-up on my previous post, from a month ago now, ‘On not retiring‘. What I said back there was that, yeah, fairly obviously, people like me (and you too, I presume) don’t ever really retire – we…

RBPEA: Opportunities unheeded…

Posted on 22 September 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Society, The Outsider — No Comments ↓

Following on from that description of ‘further-futures’ enterprise-architecture, several folks have asked me for a real example of the kind of world that I see, as an outcome of ‘Really-Big-Picture Enterprise-Architecture‘ [RBPEA]. In other words, what would be the outcome…

On not retiring

Posted on 22 August 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge, Scribbles / writing, The Outsider — 22 Comments ↓

Kind of a personal landmark, I guess: today I reach so-called ‘retirement-age’, where I’m supposedly meant to kick back, relax and walk away from all of the stresses of a lifetime of work. Hmm… no chance of that happening, is…

Tagged with: career, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, RBPEA, Society