Posts Tagged ‘technical’
“I’m not technical”
I hear these words a lot. They’re a shield for ignorance. A statement that the details don’t matter (when they really do). Learning has stopped. Submission to the people in the conversation who are technical – it’s your problem now, “I wash my hands of it”. A power play, “I care about the business, you’re just […]
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Tags: learning, technical
The perils of modern lego
Update 26 Nov 2014 – I’m very pleased that this post has been referenced by Justin Parkinson’s piece on the BBC News site ‘Has the imagination disappeared from Lego?‘, but I fear he may have misunderstood (or misrepresented) what I say about instructions. The blogger Chris Swan argues that instructions marked the start of a decline.[1] […]
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Tags: construction, creativity, design, Lego, Mindstorms, model, Technic, technical
It’s time for another one of those posts where the purpose is to save me from repeating myself, and also hopefully seed some ideas into the industry. I take inspiration from my recent purchase of some Vibram Five Fingers, which I hope to review here another day. It boils down to this – I see […]
Filed under: identity, security | 1 Comment
Tags: account, audit, break glass, entitlements, idm, portal, provisioning, review, self service, service, system, technical
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