The solution to all of your problems is here (or does not exist)

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We IT professionals are usually jealous about our knowledge and THE EXPERTISE we have achieved. I will not deny that without them, success is more difficult to reach -or more costly-, but in my most recent journey I have realized that tying ourselves only to what is known, can bring us little harvest.
The cold know-how, the expertise, the previous knowledge have been, until not long ago, our main support and project propellants, and also fundamental guarantee of our ability to execute. Moreover, some IT specialists kept that knowledge -or still keep it- under lock and key.

Bad news: if we move forward like that, we are striding with a compass that points to the past.

At the other end of the spectrum, there are those who plan and prepare for something that has always fascinated many of us: THE FUTURE.
Much of what was once foreseen is today a fact. Cloud computing is a good example.
But those things which were once thought and then came to reality, are not everything that has happened. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

There is disruption. The unforeseen. A pandemic bursts, everyone rushes to look for solutions in their books, but there are no precedents, and the situation has not been in anyone's plans either. Sounds familiar?

In those moments we realize that the romanticized future, those almost dystopian concepts in which technologies that (certainly most likely) will emerge, such as quantum computing or the metaverse, are, for those of us who take no part in their development nor testing, just one more topic to ramble on in a virtual cafe.

In good French: a solution delivered tomorrow, little can help us with today's problems.

For this reason, and for other reasons that surely I am not considering, the paradigm of future entered into crisis a long time ago. After all, what is that idea of future in reality, if not a trap that hides behind the intoxication of the promising, the danger of not seeing the ground we are stepping onto?

The world is changing so fast that we can only be part of that movement if we focus in and listen to WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY.
If we, as things develop, tie ourselves to known recipes, or blind ourselves thinking only about events that have not happened yet, we WILL definitely NOT BE PART OF THE TRANSFORMATION.

Those of us who deliver solutions to our customers, have in that challenge a DUTY, and that is to have a more holistic vision.
We need to develop active listening, and look at what is happening within our closest universe HERE AND NOW. We must have willingness to EXCHANGE, in this world that is increasingly social. And last, but not least, we need to exercize flexible thinking that allows us to achieve the agility everyone pursues and no one seems to be achieving because what was wanted for tomorrow is suddenly needed TODAY.

And here I am, thinking about al this, sleepless from excitement, beginning a new chapter of my academic life. My hope, again, is to be able to translate better and more effectively, what my customers need, learning from what is going on in the IT market right now.

My goal is to be, in addition to an irrepressable speaker/writer, a better professional in the present, and to resist the temptation to blindly envision a future that may come before its time -or never happen-.

Thanks for reading me! Your contribution is welcome :)

Dani Munitz