Three customers

we're moving forward on three customer engagements. one for sure, with heavy empahsis on services, one for product, and one still unclear. lots of decks are moving out. im trying to encapsulate and synthesize and become self aware of my discovery process and feed it into product definition and process sales. im getting asked to describe my process. glad gary is there to provide some structure. im saying xigi is a productization of the CI process he was involved in, he provides the structure that is essential. linda will be great with the big company on process i think.

eric provides an essential focus on the technology and what we are building.
im still not that aware of my process.. that's kind of odd to think about really; what about what i do becomes a replicable piece of hard coded process? it's seeing around things, between things, from different angles.. but xigi is a tool that lets you break apart the pieces of text and see the relationships in new ways.. that is one essential thing it does. andrew got that yesterday when he talked about breaking apart a report to see its authors, its funders, etc.

musing, in a narrative form, is a key piece of discovery. pausing to make sense of things, to reflect back, for me it's by writing, but sometimes by speaking, on what i'm seeing. the odd thing of having the way i work be turned into a methodology and a piece of code.. indians fought mapping in canada. maps and dreams talks about it. being hidden was their safety. that and letting people think what they wanted to think. reporting back the acceptable view. but when it came time to protect their land from the pipeline, to claim it as their own when it was going to be parcelled, they went along with mapping and clarity.

when they map you, then they've trapped you. they can say you are this and not that. to save the land from the pipeline, the indians let it happen. i am letting it happen to spread the transparency tool and methodology of xigi. i have not wanted to let that happen before, but this is a part of what in a strange, small way, you'd have to call my legacy; this will be something i leave behind. .... and that's all i can ay about that... at this point.