{"id":331,"date":"2008-02-26T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T21:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/inspiration\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T21:21:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T21:21:59","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent some time talking to my friend and colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/iandavis.com\/blog\/about\">Ian<\/a> this evening. We were talking mostly about work largely around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talis.com\/platform\">Talis Platform<\/a> and some projects I&#8217;ve been involved in lately. We talked about problems and solutions, and how things have been recently for me personally with everything thats happened lately. Anyway during our conversation he said something that reminded me heavily of something <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noam_Chomsky\">Chomsky<\/a> once said:<\/p>\n<p><pre>\r\nThere are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to\r\novercome the problems we face,  just the familiar ones: \r\nhonest search for understanding, education, organization,\r\naction that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators \r\nor that lays the basis for institutional change\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the kind \r\nof commitment that will persist despite the temptations of \r\ndisillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes,\r\ninspired by the hope of a brighter future.\r\n\r\n                                           - Noam Chomsky\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBack at the tail end of 2006, <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/16\/ea_spouse-profit-at-the-cost-of-human-dignity\/\">I wrote this about Ian<\/a>, and it still holds true today :\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOur programme lead on skywalk, Ian Davis, is probably one of the finest programme mangers I have ever worked with. Probably because he doesnt think of himself as a programme manager. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extremely goal driven and yet a humanist who puts the well being of his team before anything else. As a team leader he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pragmatist, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s his charm and his passion that has helped bring together bunch of talented geeks and focused them into a team in every sense of the word.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful for the support that Ian and many of my other colleagues have given me. It occurred to me though this evening that I can be <em>inspired by the hope of a brighter future<\/em>, and I can draw that inspiration from the people I work with &#8211; like Ian, Rob, Chris, Paul, Richard, Amanda, Justin, Sarah, Dan, Sam, Malcolm, Ceri and everyone else I work with. We are all on a journey together, in more ways than one.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you &#8230; all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent some time talking to my friend and colleague Ian this evening. We were talking mostly about work largely around the Talis Platform and some projects I&#8217;ve been involved in lately. We talked about problems and solutions, and how things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/inspiration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382,399],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal","tag-talis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}