My two daughters have distilled down my entire career down to a single sentence:
“Dad gets paid to talk and draw boxes.”
They aren’t wrong.
I have been very fortunate to live in the space between a problem and a solution. Usually that space is filled with thousands of whiteboard sessions and meetings, lot of coffees, mostly frantic deadlines and yes, many connected boxes.
I have realised that my daughter’s summation is actually the most grounded way to describe what I do. Its all about solving problems -
- What is in the box?
- What stays out of the box?
- And how do we draw lines so that everything actually talks to each other?
Why “Connected Boxes”?#
I’m starting to write this, because after so long in the industry, I think I can share some stories. I just want to talk about messy human side of delivering technology solutions.
This is going to be just my reflections on being a tech professional, an industry consultant, and a dad who is still trying to prove to his daughters that my job is more complex than drawing boxes.
One of recent whiteboard sessionss