Gosh, an exhausting day, sowing a meadow ... well, the exhausting bit is all the preparation beforehand. Tomorrow, I'm going to have an easy day - a good long walk, build a trampoline and a little bit of decorating.
Trampoline done bar the poles for a safety net. Huge monster of a thing. Still ... almost finished. Time for a cuppa. Blazing hot day today.
Trampoline done, decorating done, setting up the barbecue. It has been a lovely relaxing day. A little bit too warm but I've got my airconditioning all setup ... all powered by the solar energy I capture. A day like today I produce almost 30 kWh of power and consume about 15.
X : Don't you live in a marsh?
Me : Yes.
X : Sea level rises?
Me : I'm going to start building pirate ships. I see it as a retirement opportunity. Raise the Jolly Roger and all that. We'll raid those landlubbers in Richmond / Surrey etc.
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X : Should companies be cloud first?
Me : Yes but that's not your problem.
X : What's my problem then?
Me : Some companies can't be cloud first or it might even harmful to them.
X : How do you know?
Me : Principles.
X : You've lost me.
Me : Ok ...
... look at the doctrine table, those phase I principles of understand your users, their needs, the components involved etc.
X : And?
Me : If you don't do this then any cloud effort will be hit and miss ...
... it's a bit like data, you become data driven BEFORE you consider investing a truck load of money in some data lake. Those phase I principles are mostly about understanding your landscape. You should always do this BEFORE taking action.
Hartlepool, Heysham A, Hinkley Point B, Hunterston B and now Dungeness B - edfenergy.com/media-centre/n… ... forget about net zero plan or loss of £40M to the local economy - how close are we getting to running out of power?
I know people keep talking about crypto and the Bank of England creating its own currency etc ... but with what? If we start running out of power then the public aren't going to react well with people using it to get rich on crypto when they are having power cuts.
... oh, and before you go ChiaCoin ... proof of space, that's madness right there. Still, at least it means if you spent £400M on a data lake, the real gold is probably your disk storage (not the data).
So it begins. The problem with challenging the orthodoxy is that it controls the levers of power. Legislation will always be sold as "safety" and "security" but it's really about "challenge" -> India asks Twitter to follow tough new social media laws - arabnews.com/node/1870961/m…
The downside for those countries involved, is whilst it gives those in power a false sense of control, it undermines the very changes that are occuring and which are leading to new, more competitive organisations and industries -
But we always do this. The very desire to control change in order to retain the status quo, the existing symbols and structures of power leads us along a path where we lose power to others who choose to adapt.
Whilst I'm broadly supportive of the use of data, you have to be very careful on its processing and use i.e. could the same data be used to identify more "profitable" GP surgeries for outside investors? ->
This isn't a knock at the NHS, it's a wonderful institution which does amazing work, staffed by amazing people ... but we all know it's becoming a franchise operation under an "NHS brand". Knowing the realty of US healthcare, we will miss it ...
To explain why ... people often ask me about creating a pioneer, settler and town planner structure - blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pio… ... and the first thing I ask them to do is, check your doctrine ...
... the reason for this is fairly simple. If you attempt to put in place a pioneer, settler and town planner structure without having built the foundations (i.e. those guiding principles, the doctrine) then you are highly likely to fail and fail badly ...
X : Have you played Cyberpunk 2077.
Me : I have
X : And?
Me : Enormous potential ... wasted by launching far too early. It's going to be a long slog for them to recover but if they stick at it then it could be great.
X : How long?
Me : A couple of years at least ...
... a lot depends upon them getting the modding community behind them. They need to work on that, building a community, providing tools. Not sure they're really geared up for that and they have so many issues to sort out with the game. So close to greatness but yet ... so far.
X : Multiplayer? Third person perspective?
Me : If you want to waste time, I'm sure some will be glad. They need to build out the immersion aspect, the story, fix the AI, fix ... oh, gosh ... so much. But the potential is there to build something truly amazing. Won't be easy.