TWoPS at first-hand
Been somewhat withdrawn over the past couple of weeks, struggling to deal with one of the more stupid consequences of TWoPS (That WOrst Possible System) – namely getting paid work, which I ‘must’ do in order to be able to …
More on TWPS
A few more comments on That Worst Possible System (TWPS), whilst I’m still bashing the ideas around in my head. It’s interesting to look at some of the other artefacts and distortions of TWPS, aka the ‘normal’ money-based (or more …
That worst possible system
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 …
More on SCORE
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 …
Vale Mike Mepham
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 …
Architect of what?
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 …
The worst possible system
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 …
Futures and futures
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 …
The meaning of fado
(This one’s quite long and quite personal: if either don’t interest you, skip it! 🙂 )
Minor admin changes
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 …