Thanks Tom. I want to add to this. I am checking my motivation but I am hoping my addition is helpful, not only (but also) ego!
I am in a place where my aim is to understand and express my nature. And in doing this I find joy which is motivation enough. And I am creating my own purpose or mission to allow me to do that.
So I don't see too many boulders if I'm honest. Although the mirror I have to hold up and the honesty that is required does feel like a boulder just rolled down occassionally! But there's a reason for that boulder rolling down which does help when I discover why it happened so I can prevent future boulders.
The boulder analogy is more appropriate for when I was involved in (direct action) activism or activities that I felt I 'should' do.
Keep writing Tom for as long as it is giving you joy
If you don't see many boulders, you're doing well... :wry-grin: - certainly lucky, at any rate. - so yeah, do what you can, while you can, and make the best of it that you can, too. (If you bring others of us along with you, that'd be great too... :-) )
"Keep writing Tom for as long as it is giving you joy" - yeah, it's great when I _can_ write for the joy of it. I'll have to admit that that isn't how I started that post - to be honest, first version was a lot more negative and stuckin-Sisyphus'-world... But halfway through writing, it suddenly loosened off a lot, and reformed itself into something much more joy-ful. I hope I can keep it going, anyway - wish me luck, perhaps? :-)
Thank you Tom, I really needed this Today, your hill metaphor is so apt for how I am feeling this morning. Taking into account the amount of posts on LI it takes to address what would appear to be simple concepts, and the emergence of "you are wrong, we are right, but don't worry we can train you and give you accreditation" fly by nights is frustrating meaningful progress.
Not impossible I agree, but at the pace we are moving a sustainable planet supported by business initiatives seems to be a bridge to far at present. Oh Well.
Thanks, Robert. And yes, it _is_ "a bridge too far at present" - but that doesn't mean it'll stay that way. Ten years ago, there were very, very few of us who were willing to challenge the IT-obsessives' domination of EA. These days, it's more often the IT-obsessives who are fighting rearguard (particularly anywhere outside of the US), and it's much more often that it seems 'obvious' and 'self-evident' that EA must mean 'the architecture of the enterprise' rather than merely 'the architecture of this organisation's IT'. That's a big shift, by our discipline's standards, anyway.
Okay, with the Development Goals and suchlike, we're dealing with a much (much!) larger challenge. But if we can do it with EA, then we _can_ do it with the DGs. So don't abandon hope - we _can_ do this, and do it in time, too.
I live in constant hope, the planet needs talented architects who understand the interconnectivity of things to address the complexity of the development goals and the need to address each one as a constituent of the others.
This will only become apparent as governments turn to organizations to contribute to the larger constructs necessary to deliver by 2030.
Thanks Tom. I want to add to this. I am checking my motivation but I am hoping my addition is helpful, not only (but also) ego!
I am in a place where my aim is to understand and express my nature. And in doing this I find joy which is motivation enough. And I am creating my own purpose or mission to allow me to do that.
So I don't see too many boulders if I'm honest. Although the mirror I have to hold up and the honesty that is required does feel like a boulder just rolled down occassionally! But there's a reason for that boulder rolling down which does help when I discover why it happened so I can prevent future boulders.
The boulder analogy is more appropriate for when I was involved in (direct action) activism or activities that I felt I 'should' do.
Keep writing Tom for as long as it is giving you joy
If you don't see many boulders, you're doing well... :wry-grin: - certainly lucky, at any rate. - so yeah, do what you can, while you can, and make the best of it that you can, too. (If you bring others of us along with you, that'd be great too... :-) )
"Keep writing Tom for as long as it is giving you joy" - yeah, it's great when I _can_ write for the joy of it. I'll have to admit that that isn't how I started that post - to be honest, first version was a lot more negative and stuckin-Sisyphus'-world... But halfway through writing, it suddenly loosened off a lot, and reformed itself into something much more joy-ful. I hope I can keep it going, anyway - wish me luck, perhaps? :-)
Thank you Tom, I really needed this Today, your hill metaphor is so apt for how I am feeling this morning. Taking into account the amount of posts on LI it takes to address what would appear to be simple concepts, and the emergence of "you are wrong, we are right, but don't worry we can train you and give you accreditation" fly by nights is frustrating meaningful progress.
Not impossible I agree, but at the pace we are moving a sustainable planet supported by business initiatives seems to be a bridge to far at present. Oh Well.
Thanks, Robert. And yes, it _is_ "a bridge too far at present" - but that doesn't mean it'll stay that way. Ten years ago, there were very, very few of us who were willing to challenge the IT-obsessives' domination of EA. These days, it's more often the IT-obsessives who are fighting rearguard (particularly anywhere outside of the US), and it's much more often that it seems 'obvious' and 'self-evident' that EA must mean 'the architecture of the enterprise' rather than merely 'the architecture of this organisation's IT'. That's a big shift, by our discipline's standards, anyway.
Okay, with the Development Goals and suchlike, we're dealing with a much (much!) larger challenge. But if we can do it with EA, then we _can_ do it with the DGs. So don't abandon hope - we _can_ do this, and do it in time, too.
I live in constant hope, the planet needs talented architects who understand the interconnectivity of things to address the complexity of the development goals and the need to address each one as a constituent of the others.
This will only become apparent as governments turn to organizations to contribute to the larger constructs necessary to deliver by 2030.
Yep. So let's do what we can, yes? :-)