Planning for the Future

Planning for the future is not just some idea from the modern world, it is what Jesus tells his followers they must do in Saint Luke Chapter 14. He tells them they must be as sensible as a builder constructing a tower or a king facing a war.

“For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him, saying, "this fellow began to build and was not able to finish.” Or what king, going out to wage war against another king, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? If he cannot, then, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for the terms of peace.”

Like the builder and the king in Jesus’ teaching, we at perbit need to sit down and think.

Amazon AWS baut Vorsprung aus

Amazon owns the cloud computing market so thoroughly, and is so far ahead in market share and features, that it's "game over" for other contenders, much the same way that Google owns the internet search ad market today.

 

Most people see the cloud as a race between market leader Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, with other players like IBM also in the mix.

Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO says the others are years behind.

 

"If you look at other cloud providers in the market, there's quite a few of them still sort of in the phase where AWS was five, six years ago — in 2010 — at the moment we were still much more focused on the infrastructure side of things than the sort of rich collection of services."

"This is not a winner-takes all market," Vogel says. "I think given the changes we've seen in the last 10 years it's hard to predict which are the players that will be left in 10 years from now, or who will be the main players in the market. I definitely think AWS will be there and have a prominent role in that world."

"Do I think there will be less and less data centers over time?" Vogels says. "Yes, absolutely."

Poppy wins

Cats are faster runners than humans:

Not today though, maybe tomorrow. (She knows best!)

What have we become?

Every day, we change. We move (slowly) toward the person we'll end up being. Are you more generous than the you of five or ten years ago? More confident? More willing to explore?

Have you become more brittle? Selfish? Afraid?

Grumpy and bitter isn't a place we begin. It's a place we end up. Do we intentionally choose the optimistic path? Are we eagerly more open to change and possibility?

Every day we make the decisions that build a culture, an organization, a life. Since yesterday, since last week, since you were twelve, have you been making deposits or withdrawals from the circles of supporters around you?

People don't become selfish, hateful and afraid all at once. They do it gradually.