When another person speaks you hear both less and more than they mean. Less because none of us can express the full extent of our understanding, and more because what another says is constantly mixing and interacting with your own knowledge and puzzlements.

Life in IT is pretty shitty when it’s so misunderstood and mismanaged. It becomes thankless and frustrating as people realize that they are powerless to change the outcome, like an endlessly repeating horror movie.

Yeah. This all sounds like a great idea with no chance of catastrophic failure.

To specialize in something is, roughly speaking, to be left alone to do just that thing and not be bothered with other tasks, interruptions, and other agents’ agendas.

I guess you could call it a “failure,” but I prefer the term “learning experience.”

Nevertheless, strategy is primarily about deciding what is truly important and focusing resources and action on that objective. It is a hard discipline because focusing on one thing slights another.

If you fail to identify and analyze the obstacles, you don’t have a strategy. Instead, you have either a stretch goal, a budget, or a list of things you wish would happen.

«Indem sie alles und jeden im Internet überwachen. Auch Ihre eigenen Landsleute.» «Ganz recht. Alles und jeden. Aber niemand muss sich Sorgen machen deswegen, solange er nichts zu verbergen hat.»

Na, also. Gerade darum haben wir Janus und das Internet schließlich erfunden. Gerade damit wir jeden einzelnen überwachen können.