Blind Chance
Good fortune or success may be more often a matter of statistical probability than of human intention or intervention. Continue reading Blind Chance
Tag: Organisation
Enigmas of Ecological Problem-Solving
The non-linear cognitive flexibility and diverse conceptual vocabulary required to describe the complex problem-space of environmental and ecological complexity is also the heuristic practise with which we might seek to successfully address it. Continue reading Enigmas of Ecological Problem-Solving
Infallible Machines and Inflexible Organisations
If a non-trivially complex organisational system of any kind or scale is to be considered (even notionally) as complete or entirely self-consistent, it can not also be adaptive, flexible and resilient. Continue reading Infallible Machines and Inflexible Organisations
Information, Theory and Complexity in Technological and Organisational Systems
There is no way of proving that you have obtained the most concise, accurate or irreducibly essential pattern or theory from which any sufficiently (i.e. non-trivially) complex pattern or sequence can be reproduced… Continue reading Information, Theory and Complexity in Technological and Organisational Systems
On Leadership
The skills-sets required to obtain seniority are so often decoupled from those skills-sets actually required to perform professionally at that level. Continue reading On Leadership
Impostor Syndrome: Inadequacy, Insecurity & Careers in Information Technology
Do you work in IT ? Do you feel like an impostor ? You are not alone – 58% of surveyed IT professionals experience this. I assert that the industry is itself responsible for this subjective dissonance and professional disconnect. Continue reading Impostor Syndrome: Inadequacy, Insecurity & Careers in Information Technology
B.S. (Bureaucracy Simulator) 2.0
Bureaucracy Simulator 2.0, in stores near you soon… Continue reading B.S. (Bureaucracy Simulator) 2.0
