Category: Article
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Book Summary – How to know everything by Elke Wiss
At its simplest, this book deals with the art of asking questions. In reality, it’s about Socratic philosophy. It’s about our willingness to open our minds, close our mouths and listen. The concept is almost comically simple, but I found it genuinely profound.
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Technical Debt Is Not Debt; It’s Not Even Technical
Co-authored with Dr Paidi O’Raghallaigh and Dr Stephen McCarthy at Cork University Business School as part of my PhD studies, and originally published by Cutter Consortium’s Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence practice on 22nd of July 2021 HackerNews link Take a minute and write an answer to the question, “What is technical debt?” Then…
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Buffet-Style Architecture
To get the architecture of the business right, a company must reorganise itself around empowered teams that can operate at speed. For architecture truly to be a pivotal piece of the business transformation puzzle, it must leave the old workhorses of the past behind and move to modern transportation. Indeed, architecture must refocus on three…
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To maximise or to satisfice, that is the question: the 3 lies beneath rational decision making
We think we make sound decisions, but in reality our ability to be rational is bounded by the constraints of time and cognition. We are not rational creatures.
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Are you foolish enough to innovate?
“Stay hungry, stay foolish” — Steve Jobs How can you make a great breakthrough? How can you start the next era-defining business, write the next great song, create the next political movement? To do any of these, you must be more innovative. So where do you start? Legendary Finnish architect Eero Saarinen sat one morning…
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How Technology Architects make decisions
Or why you might spend a fortune on a red car Chinese translation available here The remarkable Herbert Simon won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978 and the Turing Medal in 1975. Reading about his life gives me a panic attack when I consider how little I have achieved in comparison. He published ‘Administrative…
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What we Can Do during this uncertain time
This is an unprecedented time in life. It feels like the usual world has paused. I was working in Florida last week when the seriousness of Covid19 hit me. Texts, email, media posts from everywhere came flooding in. Somebody told me that the US were stopping all flights to Europe. I froze when I heard…
Mark Greville 