Through the Past, Darkly

One reason why I never felt comfortable in academia was the cultural practice of “always having good ideas” – academics sit around and credit themselves with good ideas pretty much all the time.  I’ve had three or four good ideas in my life, and have tried to treat them as you would a wounded bid that needs love and care.  This page has papers or articles I’ve written that tried to expand on what I might have thought was a good idea.  Some of them have their roots in my time at Unisys, when I got to see how information technology was going to change enterprises – we were not selling computer hardware so much as organizational change.  Regardless, if you wrote something 20 or 30 years ago and it’s not embarrassing today, you’re that far ahead.