Harwell Thrasher is a retired IT strategist who still has a few books left to write. His most recent book is “Making It Clear: 156 essays on business, management, leadership, human nature, projects, information technology, and life in general.” Harwell’s first book, “Boiling the IT Frog,” published in 2007, summarized his perspective on the business side of corporate Information Technology. In between, Harwell wrote “Winning Pétanque,” published in 2022, which went in an entirely different direction and recapped his coaching experience for the French game of pétanque. The common element in all of these books is the explanation of complicated issues in a simple way that’s easy to understand.