When Jason gathered the crew of the Argo, he collected the most famous heroes of a generation. Heracles brought strength. Orpheus brought music that could quiet the sea. And a man named Idmon brought something stranger and harder to carry: he could read the future.
Before the ship left the harbor at Iolcus, Idmon read the omens for the voyage. The signs told him two things. The quest would succeed. And he would not survive it.
He boarded anyway.
He served the crew as their seer through the whole voyage out, reading the water and the sky, telling the truth about what was coming whether or not anyone wanted to hear it. Far up the coast of the Black Sea, in the country of the Mariandyni, it ended the way he always knew it would. The crew mourned him, built his tomb, and finished the quest his foresight had guided.
Know the storm. Sail anyway. The Idmon Standard
We took his name because it describes the job. Good software work, and good IT work, is the discipline of seeing clearly: naming the risks, the costs, and the hard parts before the voyage starts, and then committing completely once it does. Foresight without commitment is cowardice. Commitment without foresight is a shipwreck. Idmon had both.