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2 months, 8 days ago

Three kinds of chaos

by Tom Graves

There are three kinds of chaos. They’re fundamentally different from each other. Don’t mix them up… (For a quick overview of the themes in this post, see the video ‘Three kinds of chaos‘.) I was going to start this off …

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Categories #eavoices, business, certainty, chaos, Complexity / Structure, counter-entropy, Enterprise Architecture, entropy, order, SCAN, Uncertainty Tags #eavoices, control
6 years, 9 months ago

Bending reality (short version)

by Tom Graves

Do you believe in magic? Most people don’t. But this isn’t about magic as such – it’s about belief: in particular, Gooch’s Paradox, that “things not only have to be seen to be believed, but also have to be believed to…

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Categories certainty, Complexity / Structure, disruption, Enterprise Architecture, mythquake, Realities, SCAN, Society, Uncertainty, wyrd, Wyrd and magic Tags change, paradigm
6 years, 9 months ago

Bending reality

by Tom Graves

Do you believe in magic? [Yep, this one is long – more than 7000 words, or long even by my somewhat-extreme standards for blogging. But there are good reasons why it needs to be this long, as you’ll discover later – and…

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Categories certainty, Complexity / Structure, disruption, Enterprise Architecture, mythquake, Realities, SCAN, Society, Uncertainty, wyrd, Wyrd and magic Tags change, paradigm
7 years, 9 months ago

More on backbone and edge

by Tom Graves

How do we build the right support in our architectures for the balance between certainty and uncertainty? How do we decide what needs to go into backbone, edge, or somewhere in between? This is a follow-on to the themes in…

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Categories backbone vs edge, business, certainty, complexity, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise Architecture, service-design, Uncertainty, uniqueness

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