possession-economy – Tom Graves / Tetradian

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On fiction and RBPEA – ‘Chance and the Institution’

Posted on 19 October 2016 by

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Another follow-on from the fiction theme as described in the two previous posts. This extract from the collaborative transmedia-project gives a bit more detail on the underlying backstory and storyworld that I’m setting up for it, and the crucial impact…

On fiction and RBPEA – At the docks

Posted on 17 October 2016 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Futures, Power and responsibility, Realities, Scribbles / writing, Society — 3 Comments ↓

As in the previous post, I’ve been saying for a while that I’m moving more towards fiction as a way of explaining the core ideas of my work. This extract is from the early stages of what I intend to…

RBPEA: Attachment, non-attachment, non-detachment

Posted on 12 May 2015 by

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

It’d be mid-evening by now, I guess, as I wander down to the platform for the tube-train home. As the train-doors open, there’s a cluster of mostly Asian lads down at this end of the train, happily joshing with each…

The gift of a world

Posted on 6 January 2014 by

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It’s heavy – that’s all I can tell at first. Slowly, carefully, I unwrap the present my great-niece has given me. It’s a small wooden box, with brass hinges and fastener, and with my name inlaid on top in green…

Four principles for a sane society: an addendum

Posted on 23 February 2013 by

Tom G Posted in Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Power and responsibility, Society — 12 Comments ↓

What architectures do we need for a society and economics that’d be viable and sustainable over the longer term? And how do we scale that down to the the everyday work we do at present in enterprise-architectures and the like?…

Relational-assets are not ‘possessions’

Posted on 28 December 2011 by

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What happens when someone gets confused about the nature of different types of assets? Short answer: they try to treat everything as ‘possessions’ – and that’s when the lawyers have a field-day… A great example of this is described in…

Looking at the big picture

Posted on 4 November 2011 by

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In case you’ve been wondering why I’ve been ranting about those apparently-abstract ideas about ‘Possessed by possession‘ and the like… What I’ve been calling ‘Really-Big-Picture enterprise-architecture‘ is about looking at how we can apply enterprise-architecture ideas at a much larger…

One more try…

Posted on 6 October 2011 by

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Oh well. The past couple of posts on a ‘thought-experiment‘ in using enterprise-architecture methods to guide a fundamental rethink of economics both seem to have gone down like the proverbial lead-balloon. Fair enough. But I guess I’ll do one more try before…

A simpler version of the ‘EA-governance thought-experiment’

Posted on 5 October 2011 by

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The previous post ‘Governance in a responsibility-based enterprise-architecture‘ was a bit long… as usual… So here’s a (somewhat) shorter-form version of the same ‘thought-experiment’ about an EA-based approach to governance and law, laid out in step-by-step format, and without the…

Governance in a responsibility-based enterprise-architecture

Posted on 4 October 2011 by

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I’ve deliberately chosen a rather bland title here for what may turn out to be, for many people, a seriously scary post… because what this is actually about is rethinking, from scratch, the entire basis of property-law and quite a few…