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Deghtani's avatar

Great post! I remember when I watched Chernobyl early this year on my flight back to BNE in one go, throughout this series, my software engineer mind was thinking of all the times, where software design decisions, technology selection decisions, support model decisions are rooted in someone' own career path ... and those decisions can have such long lasting impacts on business, people and as per your terminology 'Enterprise' ... we as architects are capable of causing many Chernobyl's or avoiding many...

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Tom Graves's avatar

Yeah, exactly, Deghtani - 'Chernobyl' provides us with some sobering checklists that we _definitely_ need to apply in our own work too..

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Arvind Patil's avatar

Excellent insights. I like your views on being honest and truthful to tackle larger global issues we all experiencing right now.

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Tom Graves's avatar

Many thanks, Arvind. And yes, the only we're going to get out of this mess of self-repeating, deeply-defended lies is by challenging those lies - particularly those we ourselves hold.

I need to write a post on the concept of a 'mythquake'.- in fact I'll probably aim to do that for next week. Thanks again, anyway.

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