By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 19 Feb 21
One of the features of being a generalist is that you are always curious about new things and understanding, outside of your original fields of study or practice and often tangential to it. My early software business as a general manager involved taking academic ideas to market for the first time and when I moved into a more general strategy role my first thought was to look for novelty. The Genus Programme in DataSciences allowed me to do that on a larger scale. In the process, I drew heavily on Peter Churchland’s Soft systems in our early workshop techniques. Thanks
One of the features of being a generalist is that you are always curious about new things and understanding, outside of your original fields of study or practice and often tangential to it. My early software business as a general manager involved taking academic ideas to market for the first time and when I moved into a more general strategy
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Feb 21
50 years ago today I was in the First Year Sixth of the Alun School and used the privilege of being in the Sixth to go into town during a study period to get a set of the first decimal coins in the UK. It had been a long time coming. Students of Trollope (and anyone who wants to understand 19th Century politics should be one, he and Thackeray are infinitely preferable to the mawkishness of Dickens) will remember that is was a pet project of Plantagenet Palliser. Before decimalisation life was interesting. There were twelve pennies in the shilling,
50 years ago today I was in the First Year Sixth of the Alun School and used the privilege of being in the Sixth to go into town during a study period to get a set of the first decimal coins in the UK. It had been a long time coming. Students of Trollope (and anyone who wants to understand
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Feb 21
The opening quote in the title is one of the best-known of Homer’s epithets, although in this case the picture does not include the wine dark sea but was instead is taken from our bedroom window early this morning. Maybe it is rising through the bible black trees in this case, and in tribute to Dylan Thomas who was a master of the techniques. That is from the opening line of Under Milk Wood which I quote in full: It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’-and- rabbits’ wood limping invisible
The opening quote in the title is one of the best-known of Homer’s epithets, although in this case the picture does not include the wine dark sea but was instead is taken from our bedroom window early this morning. Maybe it is rising through the bible black trees in this case, and in tribute to Dylan Thomas who was a master of the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Feb 21
Writing the first part of this a couple of days ago was very therapeutic, I got a lot of anger out of the system and slept well in consequence. And in response to those who have asked, no I won’t name names or give any more clues. The post certainly attracted attention in social media so it would appear that sin and vengeance are good popular themes! Today I want to move on to the vengeance question and that necessarily involves the idea of repentance and contrition. So today’s matrix is designed to overlay the earlier one. To explain the
Writing the first part of this a couple of days ago was very therapeutic, I got a lot of anger out of the system and slept well in consequence. And in response to those who have asked, no I won’t name names or give any more clues. The post certainly attracted attention in social media so it would appear that
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Feb 21
One of the first classic novels I came across, and through the medium of a radio play, was the Count of Monte Christo. My mother objected to televisions on principle and so we grew up with radio which in many ways was a blessing. Radio feeds the imagination in a way that television does not. OK, I had to sneak round to friends’ houses to see Doctor Who but that was a small price to pay and I’m still proud of the fact that I have never missed a single episode of that series. Dumas’s novel for those not familiar
One of the first classic novels I came across, and through the medium of a radio play, was the Count of Monte Christo. My mother objected to televisions on principle and so we grew up with radio which in many ways was a blessing. Radio feeds the imagination in a way that television does not. OK, I had to sneak
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Jan 21
This post is by way of a postscript to the main theme of the series. To be honest, I am never sure if the twelve days of Christmas start on the Day itself or Boxing day, but today is Epiphany when the Magi presented their gifts to the Christ Child and the traditional end of the Christmas period so I make no apology for adding a thirteenth post to the sequence. In Wales, the day is known as Ystwyll and its celebration involves significant consumption of cake in the hope of discovering a ring and the hunting of the wren,
This post is by way of a postscript to the main theme of the series. To be honest, I am never sure if the twelve days of Christmas start on the Day itself or Boxing day, but today is Epiphany when the Magi presented their gifts to the Christ Child and the traditional end of the Christmas period so I
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