"Exploring the intersection of decisions and technology"
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Monoliths
I don't remember hearing the "scale-up"/"scale-out" contrast before, but this assertion that Windows is too monolithic (to do either, I suppose) caught my eye because of a Gartner diagram portraying the contrast.
I'm a systems engineer and architect involved in large system development. I'm interested in how individuals and organizations transform knowledge into decisions, and how "DNA-level" influences like identity, trust, and values shape sensemaking.
My approach to these topics is grounded in a synthesis of concepts from social psychology, cognitive science, and complexity science. Recent influences include Dave Snowden (Cynefin), Gary Klein (data-frame model), and Karl Weick. Less recent influences are a wide range of writers and researchers in the areas of complex adaptive systems and chaos theory.
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