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When there is a reply to me or comment on something I've said... How in the hell do I view that thread? I have no idea what they're responding to. I don't think I'm dumb but I cannot figure it out
This is an 8th grade exam from 1912.
No calculating how many watermelons Stacey can fit in her station wagon. It's all about things like interest payments and construction problems.
Real-world stuff. Because 8th grade education was supposed to be adequate prep for real life.
Consultants Saying Things- Episode 75: The One About Existential Angst
- E73-02: Technologists Should Ask Better Questions
- E73-01: Phil talks good questions
- Episode 74: The One About Finding and Landing Clients
- Episode 73: The One About Asking Good Questions
- Episode 72: The One About Strategic Foresight 2035
- Episode 71: The One About The Buggy Whip Moment
- CST’s Patreon Site
- Episode 70: The One About Deliberate Career Planning
- Episode 69: The One About Un-Learning
Short and Sweet Archive
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On The CIO’s Top Challenges
Posted on September 9, 2011 | No CommentsThere are many challenges that CIO's are facing in today's cloudy, jargony, swirling maelstrom of Information Technology. But isn't there something missing in the conversation that totally supersedes these challenges? -
Architecture is Not: A White Paper
Posted on August 18, 2011 | No CommentsAn architecture that is merely a PDF with a couple of generic line-box-arrow diagrams coupled with a few colorful "pancake" pictures isn't really an architecture. It's a marketing glossy. A white paper is too generic to be passed off as a real solution to a real problem. -
10 Signs You’re Not REALLY a Director of IT
Posted on May 19, 2011 | No CommentsTitle inflation/mis-direction is vermicious. Like a Knid. -
Architecture is Not: A Proof of Concept
Posted on May 5, 2011 | No CommentsAn architecture for a solution requires understanding the problem at hand well enough that solving it can be described in terms that everyone understands. The architect speaks in terms of capabilities, not products. -
Is The CIO Necessary?
Posted on March 31, 2011 | No CommentsThe purpose of a company is to make money and to make that money while somehow imparting a positive effect to its customers. Can IT enable the business without a clearly laid out Vision? Without that sense of purpose, doesn't IT typically make a mosh of things?
