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TWoPS at first-hand

By Tom G Posted on 18 January 2007 Posted in Complexity / Structure, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society No Comments

Been somewhat withdrawn over the past couple of weeks, struggling to deal with one of the more stupid consequences of TWoPS (That WOrst Possible System) – namely getting paid work,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 …

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More on TWPS

By Tom G Posted on 8 January 2007 Posted in Complexity / Structure, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society 3 Comments

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 …

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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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