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That worst possible system

By Tom G Posted on 4 January 2007 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment

A bit more on “The worst possible system” of economics and resource-management, because Linda (god[dess]-bless-her-cotton-socks 🙂 ) said she wanted an example. Perhaps one of the simplest examples is the mismatch between price and value on housing. The value of …

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More on SCORE

By Tom G Posted on 24 December 2006 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Futures, Knowledge No Comments

As promised some time ago, I’ve now completed a Powerpoint on the SCORE strategy-assessment methodology – you’ll find the PDF file of the Notes view up on the Tetradian website at http://tetradian.com/download/intro-to-score.pdf . Comments, if you would? (And if you …

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Vale Mike Mepham

By Tom G Posted on 23 December 2006 Posted in Uncategorized 2 Comments

Very sad to hear my that my old colleague from the Wordsmiths days, Mike Mepham, died recently of a heart-attack, according to his obituary in the London Daily Telegraph. Mike joined Wordmiths back in 1982 or thereabouts, to take over …

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Architect of what?

By Tom G Posted on 12 December 2006 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Knowledge No Comments

Back in the UK, I’m pottering around looking at the job-scene whilst working on some new material for Tetradian.com. The nearest to a conventional job-description for what I do is ‘Enterprise Architect’ – the structure of large organisations, with somewhat …

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The worst possible system

By Tom G Posted on 6 December 2006 Posted in Futures, Power and responsibility, Society 1 Comment

Another idea that’s been brewing as part of Mythquake. Map out the stereotype life-cycle, as the time baseline of a graph: from teenager, to first leaving home, to getting together with a partner, having kids, kids start to go to …

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Futures and futures

By Tom G Posted on 21 November 2006 Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Futures, Society 2 Comments

Linda asked for a quick summary of ‘futures’. There are two very different business meanings of ‘futures’: ‘futures’ as a category of financial-derivatives trading ‘futures’ as a strategic view To my mind, the former perhaps used to have some practical …

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The meaning of fado

By Tom G Posted on 20 November 2006 Posted in The Outsider 1 Comment

(This one’s quite long and quite personal: if either don’t interest you, skip it! 🙂 )

Minor admin changes

By Tom G Posted on 20 November 2006 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Two minor admin changes here: I’ve changed the permalink structure from the default “?=number” to a more readable “/year/month/day/title/” style I’ve added an RSS feed to the links, under ‘Syndication’: http://weblog.tomgraves.eu/?feed=rss Nothing to write home about, but thought I ought …

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The struggle to communicate

By Tom G Posted on 13 November 2006 Posted in The Outsider, Uncategorized No Comments

Getting sense out a rental-car company can be hard: now try it when the person at the other end of the line doesn’t speak the same language… Travelling in Portugal is ‘interesting’, often in the classic Chinese sense… 🙁 My …

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Mythquake

By Tom G Posted on 5 November 2006 Posted in Realities, Scribbles / writing No Comments

In the damp spaces of the days, when I can’t play tourist, I’ve been hacking at content for a book I’ve been brewing for a couple of years now: Mythquake. Basic idea is straightforward: there’s a direct metaphor between tectonic …

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