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The weight of the past
What’s the weight of the past? For me, right now, it’s about two tons. Literally. I moved back to Australia in mid-March of this year. Courtesy of the pandemic-lockdown, every part of my initial plans...
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Sometimes it takes a while…
Sometimes, as with trees, it takes a while for the results of our hard work to show… Today I took the day off, and went for a drive around the area where I used to live, a few dozen miles to the south...
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2020 Hindsight (of course)
Exactly a year ago, on 31 December 2019, I wrote a post about ‘changes coming‘, for me and others too. It turned out to be wildly optimistic, of course: but then it’s always easier to achieve 20-20...
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Enterprise-architecture: Clawing our way out of limbo
A year ago, I was at Heathrow, boarding a flight to Australia. My long years of eldercare had at last come to an end: it was time for a restart. It was a good plan. I’d worked on it for months. Present...
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Three months to go!
Yikes! Just realised that it’s only three months from now that I’ll be seventy years old! Time to think about plans for retirement… yay! Though those plans are going to have to be kinda constrained,...
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Three months to go! – an addendum
Yes, I’ll admit it: that whole ‘retirement’ thing in the previous post was a euphemism for “Goodbye, ‘enterprise’-architecture, and (no) thanks for all the (lack of) fish”. Oh well. Yet where does this...
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Two months to go!
“Don’t it always seem to go / that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” – so sang Joni Mitchell in ‘Big Yellow Taxi’, way back in 1970. Seems appropriate about enterprise-architecture too… A...
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Not playing this game any more
When does a fair question about business become unfair? One answer: when the questioner expects to make money from an answer that they won’t pay for… I hate the money-economy with a passion, and I try...
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One month to go!
This was to be the first part of the reveal for the “So here’s the plan…” for the next stage of my work – but then illness intervened, didn’t it? Oh well. I’ll be back as soon as I can. But for now...
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Going, going, gone… and start again
I’m now seventy years old. Today is the day that I retire from ‘enterprise’-architecture, so that I can concentrate more on enterprise-architecture. And no, that’s not a contradiction. The point here...
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