Comments on: Workshop on “Flexible Modeling Tools”, Cascon 2009, Markham, ON http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/workshop-on-flexible-modeling-tools-cascon-2009-markham-on/ ... in Business Organizations and Information Technologies Mon, 21 May 2012 22:13:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Doug McDavid http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/workshop-on-flexible-modeling-tools-cascon-2009-markham-on/comment-page-1/#comment-56432 Doug McDavid Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:45:16 +0000 http://coevolving.com/blogs/?p=279#comment-56432 I think I can now see one of the problems. Tool builders want to build tools, so that's what they do. People who do the work may influence tool builders, but they always hold the power to remain ignorant of how things are really done, and just imagine how much better they might be done with a tool. I find myself building my own tools as I go, which the tool builders are manifestly and persistently not interested in. Now I think I'm beginning to understand why, now that I find myself at a distance from this actual conversation. I think I can now see one of the problems. Tool builders want to build tools, so that’s what they do. People who do the work may influence tool builders, but they always hold the power to remain ignorant of how things are really done, and just imagine how much better they might be done with a tool.

I find myself building my own tools as I go, which the tool builders are manifestly and persistently not interested in. Now I think I’m beginning to understand why, now that I find myself at a distance from this actual conversation.

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