Thread by @swardley

X : Why did you make mapping creative commons?
Me : It's all in my map of mapping. I set out on this path almost 16 years ago, I have every intention of wiping out the existing management / strategy consultancy industry and replacing it with something that actually does the job.

X : What if management consultants start adopting your method?
Me : Applying situational awareness? Teaching others to map? Perfect, that'll accelerate the process. I expect them to fight due to existing inertia.

I wanted to do this in plain sight, not to hide my intentions, to use open as a weapon in order to accelerate the process, to democratise the concepts and teaching of strategy through situational awareness. My intent is singular and focused.

15 years to go by my reckoning.

X : Do you think you'll succeed?
Me : Nothing is ever guaranteed, all maps are imperfect, the future is hidden despite our best efforts to cheat.

X : 15 years to wipe them out?
Me : No. 15 years for situational awareness to become the new norm. Add 20 more years after that for the laggards to finally accept that situational awareness matters. I'm hoping I should be around to see it become a new norm or the effort to fail.

X : Feels like there is something personal here?
Me : There is. I want to demonstrate a point. The same point I partially showed with Ubuntu, Gov and others.
X : ?
Me : You can take on entire well funded and entrenched industries with nothing more than time and directed effort.

X : Can you?
Me : Ask me in 15 years. I'll know then.