Tom Welsh
Senior Consultant

Tom Welsh is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Architecture practice and former Editor of Cutter Consortium's monthly Web Services Strategies. He is an independent consultant and analyst specializing in middleware, object technology, and software engineering. More...

15 January 2010- 07:20 AM

Meaning is a Double-Edged Sword

I couldn’t agree more with Ken Orr’s remarks about the vague usage of terms that one might expect to have clearly-defined meanings. But this is what you must expect at the interface between the worlds of human enterprise and scientific precision.
There is a theory – which I find intuitively plausible – that natural language evolved [...]

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The trouble with nerds

Have you read Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s best-selling book “The Black Swan” yet? Like his first, “Fooled by Randomness”, it’s a terrific read – although lots of critics are hammering him for arrogance and self-indulgence, both in the media and on Amazon. Taleb is smart, self-made, opinionated, and a maverick. His main thesis is that human [...]

Comments [1] Category: Collaboration+Teams, General, Governance, IT Management, Leadership, Risk Management

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