We fear uncertainty, and we hate fear. And honestly, we are bad at calculating risk and handling uncertainty. Fear and a clear head do not mix easily. When we drive a car or do sports, danger is close and split second reactions is coupled with sometimes a well developed ability to analyse the near f...

A wall named complexity. Overly complex and utterly self-inflicted. The problem is banal but hard to overcome; it's the wrong choice of modelling method. That method, thanks to the gentlemen in Venice 514 years ago and ne'er questioned, makes the complexity 100 times, nay, 400 times more complex tha...

on a sunny Thursday. James Governor spurred a 140 char restricted discussion by mentioning some (preposterous?) claims by JBoss about their future marketshare for Enterprise Middleware. Ric picked up the ball and I piped in. aqualung: @monkchips in 2015 there will be a crapload of middleware workloa...

When using the term "enterprise software" about thingamy I am met with much blank stares and urges to change theme - enterprise is boring... As said earlier - "boring is good" as it attract much less fluff as in money-willing-to-be-lost and fifteen competitors a week after you've launched a new serv...

Hugh's post on social objects the other day resonated with many, and I still remember Jyri bouncing a beach ball around at Reboot a couple of years ago. Allow me to quote Hugh reporting from a social setting: "Increasingly I've been using a term, "Social Marker" to describe a certain type of Social ...

Been quiet for awhile, but busy! A bit of this and a bit of that - some business stuff (buyers prowling around one of my investments) and some tech stuff - thingamy being a part of the tech stuff obviously. Quite into the practical side of all the theorising now - but that's pretty much darned fun I...

If you're an investor, there are two basic industry traits that you should look for:1. Big market 2. BoringBoring? I've been an investor in many business, of which some have been of the oh-so-cool kind: Yachting, sports equipment, fashion, electronic games... And then I've been involved in the bugge...