Brendan—Ranges Technology @RangesTech

I write here to help small business owners and freelancers leverage technology to save more time and make more money. ranges.technology Down Under Joined January 2018

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Sam Bent @DoingFedTime

3 months ago

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Brendan—Ranges Technology @RangesTech

3 months ago

@DoingFedTime The idea is to encourage more 'normies' how to be independently private, but more importantly, why privacy matters in everyday life. Spies and crooks don't need to rifle through your garbage any longer, they go straight to the most reliable source; your metadata.

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3 months ago

@SIGNAL_RETURN Loving this plan. I hope the execution lives up to the promise, the world needs more people and organisations to do what they say they will.

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Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_

6 months ago

@xlr8_ERR Will reading books filled with dangerous ideas like "personal autonomy" piss them off? I assume yes! Amazon made TOF a Kindle Deal in Aus, which means TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO CHECK IT OUT. (idk how to find you people!) —Christine Eriksen amazon.com.au/Theft-Fire-Orb…

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Brendan—Ranges Technology @RangesTech

8 months ago

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Brendan—Ranges Technology @RangesTech

2 years ago

But asking for a price upfront will never get you to that best end state.

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Brendan—Ranges Technology @RangesTech

2 years ago

Will it have messaging expertly developed to target your ideal audience and complementary graphics and design that make that audience feel comfortable and ready to work with you? It's entirely up to you.

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2 years ago

If you're in the market for a custom website or online store for your business, and you want it to be made for you, not just a generic interpretation of a business like yours You're doing yourself a disservice by asking for the price upfront.

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Brendan—Ranges Technology @RangesTech

2 years ago

“The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.” —Walt Disney

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2 years ago

The Value of Values. A few chapters back, I had a role as Enterprise Architect at a medium-sized org. I did the training, had lots of conversations with stakeholders and drew a lot of diagrams to try to explain concepts. It wasn't a failure, nor was it particularly successful, but the experience itself was educational. What I realised is that the actual role of EA in these orgs is really just to get funding for new IT projects, despite the office politics—which, is so similar to the activities of big consulting firms and lobby groups that it may as well be the same thing. They have their place, but it wasn't for me. Having said that, I developed a huge respect for the basic concepts of developing and managing a 'business architecture' or a 'technology architecture', or any sort of intentionally designed and managed organisation and infrastructure that humans operate to achieve a purpose. The most valuable aspect for me was developing the 'Architecture Principles' —which is just a fancier, more archi-soteric sounding name for a 'Values Statement'. Basically, the idea is to create a document that will define the guiding values or principles upon which your organisation will operate. The initial value statement is typically the 'Primacy of Principles'—or in actual human-speak, that you'll adhere in practice, not just in theory, to the values defined in the values statement! Not much sense in having values and ignoring them, right? The values you define within the document are unique to the industry or market segment you operate within—but the most valuable aspect of having such a document is the constraints that it places upon your downstream decision-making. Knowing your guiding values makes deciding easier. Imagine standing in aisle 7 in Woolies, staring at the shelves of various cleaning products, wondering how to choose between them for the office spring cleaning task. Should you choose the cheaper one? or the expensive one? the blue packaging that says not tested on animals? or the green one that says contains no phosphates or forever chemicals? The value of the values statement is that your decision is easy if you already have your criteria for choosing pre-defined: "Our organisation values and favours environmentally friendly and low-impact products." Boom, pick up the green pack and be on your way. The same can be scaled up to deciding on which projects to do next in a multi-billion dollar corporate budget. "We value human rights at all levels of the manufacturing and product chain of the products we use at Acme Corp." Boom, you're replacing your mobile device fleet with certified 'no child labour minerals' products—even though they may be slightly more expensive than the competition. Values are important—once defined, they shouldn't change very often. Used correctly and adhered to, their impact trickles down into every aspect of the organisation that you run, big or small. They clarify everything downstream and decision-making becomes simpler and more obvious, with less room for lobbying and politicking. That's the value of having values.