It's one of my favorite scenes in The Sopranos. Christopher talks about his arc as a man. Where's my arc, Paulie?
I was watching that scene today and I started thinking about my arc as a writer. With the first book, I wrote about what I knew. Itโs pretty common for a non-fiction writer to do this. I had seen so many IT projects blow up, why not write a jargon-free book about them? So I did.
Whereโs my arc taking me? I have no ideaโฆbut I canโt wait to find out.
The second book is based on the premise that organizations that canโt implement mature technologies will have a tough road to hoe with respect to emerging technologies like cloud computing, MDM, open source, etc.
But big companies face big struggles. What about smaller organizations? Arenโt they doing some cool things? Yesโand thatโs the premise behind book number three.
And then there are those large companies that are acting like small ones. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are nothing less than โbig smallโ companies. They still innovate better than many companies 1/100th their size. Thatโs the fourth book in a nutshell.
โThe Gang of Fourโ does many things well, including managing vast amounts of data. Big Data. Really Big Data. Thatโs a big part of book number 5.
Whereโs my arc taking me? I have no ideaโฆbut I canโt wait to find out.
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