Confused… Convoluted… Who knows what In our cloud-based world, the whereabouts of files can still be a mystery…. Maybe you can keep stuff straight if you are working on your own, but as soon as you have multiple accounts on multiple computers with multiple devices and lots of people to Read more…
Information technology is really not very good with diversity. It demands a certain conformity in order to work. Everything has to line up in figurative and literal columns and rows. Everything has to fit in the way it is intended. The content can be relatively diverse as long as it Read more…
The problem with IT is that it is built around logic. Logic can be goodLogic is rational But logic can be very limiting. It is often built on assumptions. The assumptions can be very good. The assumption can help you run your organization in an organized way. This is great Read more…
“Teach the twisted speech to the young believers.” But which believers and what do they believe? We all have our twisted speech and jargon, and sometimes even we believe it. This is a question that goes way beyond tech, but it certainly rings true in tech circles as well. The Read more…
Information technology is dehumanizing while it cloyingly claims to personalize everything for us. We are not really be treated as humans. We are be treated as clusters and segments. We are being made to think that we are special, but we are so very much not. Whoever we are, we Read more…
The role of emotion in data is underrated. Information systems don’t really put much feeling into their bits and bytes… And yet that is all that they really are. Bits and bytes that make up one version of reality. Just because it is data doesn’t make it real. And just Read more…
Water runs through pipes and while it is essential for life, few people are making a living through the strategic use of water. But water is still water despite it’s various states that it can be in. Information can be in many forms and is essentially infinite. While there are Read more…
Sharing is caring…or is it? It seems innocuous enough. It even seems helpful. But really? People have enough on their plate without lazy content sharing or cover your ass passing info along. We are all guilty of passing something along for a variety of reasons. Some of them are legitAnd Read more…
The exchange of information is usually not treated like a transaction. There is a lot information that is exchanged informally. This information can contain a lot of value. Sometimes it’s mutually valuable, other times the value is imbalanced. Even when information is traded as a financial transaction, the value doesn’t Read more…
There is a Japanese concept called Poke Yoke that in oversimplified terms means mistake proofing by design. This is a brilliant and reassuring strategy when it works as intended…But it is massively frustrating when it doesn’t. I don’t think I am the only person that has ever tried to force Read more…