X : Do you like Star Trek Voyager?
Me : IMHO, it's the best of the Star Trek franchise. Glorious. Two fantastic lead characters in Janeway and Seven of Nine.
X : Who else?
Me : Others? Oh, there's the doctor who is good but really it's all about Janeway and Seven of Nine.
X : Other characters?
Me : Off the main plot which is the relationship between Janeway and Seven. There are other filler characters ... Neelix likes to be annoying, B'Elanna likes to break people's faces, Chakotay likes vision quests and Tuvok is the required Spock ...
... the doctor is the most interesting secondary character. Beyond that there was Tuvix (a mix of Neelix and Tuvok) formed from a transporter malfunction. That was a wonderful episode. Still, the whole series is worth watching.
X : Kes, Paris?
Me : Now we're scrapping the barrel. Kes tried to outcompete Neelix on the annoying scale and Paris was an endless tale of constantly seeking dad's approval with ever more juvenile actions.

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1 Feb
X : What interests you in technology today?
Me : Lots of things? Do you mean companies?
X : Besides Amazon?
Me : Oodles. What are you after?
X : Something different?
Me : Try Feenk - feenk.com - and the Glamorous Toolkit underneath this - gtoolkit.com
X : Why them?
Me : Well, I happen to know @girba, we talk about what he is doing. The core area he is tackling is in observability of systems, GT is the underlying platform for this ... these are huge problems he is dealing with. It's a very interesting space.
X : Why?
Me : Well, what % of massive transformations do you think take place without a real understanding of the systems in place?
X : 5%?
Me : I'd guess it's the same as the number of crisis that occur because we don't understand our tech landscape.
X : 10%?
Me : 99%?
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1 Feb
A new book, Flow Architectures by @jamesurquhart ... thank you James.
Ok, books with #wardleymaps now include

Flow Architectures - amazon.co.uk/Flow-Architect…

Reaching Cloud Velocity - amazon.co.uk/Reaching-Cloud…

Digitizing Government - palgrave.com/gp/book/978113…

...
From intention to action - amazon.co.uk/Intention-Acti…

The art of strategy - amazon.co.uk/ART-STRATEGY-T…

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1 Feb
X : How common is imposter syndrome?
Me : In execs?
X : Yes
Me : Common. Most twig their position has little to do with talent but more with luck and privilige. It can be a shock.
X : The rest? Talent?
Me : No, the rest are mostly psychopaths disconnected from reality.
X : So talent has no role?
Me : It has a role but it's relatively minor. There are outliers etc. But wealth and position are not gaussian distributions correlated to talent but appear to be power laws more clostly linked to luck, inheritance and other reinforcing mechanisms.
X : Is that fair?
Me : Depends upon your poisiton and whether your interest is in making the system more competitive. If so, you'll tackle inequality and shift the system to a more gaussian distribution based on talent.
X : Anyone doing this?
Me : Watch China, this year.
Read 7 tweets
30 Jan
It's essential. Last Mar / Apr, I built a new desktop (hadn't done that for ages), two screens, extended table, microphones, back light, camera, SAD lights, blue tint glasses, trackball, cooling and kitted out an office. Since added C02 monitors, UPS, channel bonded 4G etc.
I'm fortunate that I had the space and the basic skills needed to get the environment right for me but if you can then it's worth it.
Couple of other things to consider - I use an XP-Pen board for drawing, I pinched a lot of lessons from gaming (hence the blue filter glasses, the 144Mhz screens etc), get a decent set of headphones and invest in a good chair.
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29 Jan
X : Elon Musk and Tesla are about batteries not cars.
Me : Not quite. Think of it more as a "Getting to Mars which needs batteries which needs cars" company ... then Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company all make sense.
If you simply start with Elon Musk as the user with a need to build a civilisation on Mars and then map down ... all of these companies make sense as you'll quickly find the components you need to industrialise. Have that long term focus on intent (i.e. get to Mars) is important.
This will happen a lot quicker than if it was simply driven by the market where the intent is more short term focus. That's one of the things people miss when they say "look at Space, private companies do better than Gov" ... you need to look at the focus on intent.
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27 Jan
#Reddit invents the trickle down economy with #GameStop and now the talk is all about regulation. Apparently wealth is supposed to only flow one way whilst promises of future breadcrumbs flows the other.
Looking at what's happening - - I suspect that regulation will happen faster than you can say "where's my stimulus check?" ... nothing moves the legal system faster than the wealthy losing their favourite game of "steal from the poor to feed the rich".
"amateurs","upstarts", "frenzy", "vigilante", "herd" versus "professional" ... go on @BBCNews, tell us what you really think.

I'm suprised the article didn't start with "uppity little oiks forget their place and their betters" - bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
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