Coming back from holidays into the New Year is a lot like coming back from a commercial break. Everyone got a reset, went to the bathroom, and had some snacks. But now we’re all ready for the second act, to see what happens next. The only difference between the show that starts after a commercial break is that you can choose which direction it goes in, and what better time to choose than now? You…
Keeping up is okay. Keeping up with the person in front of you will get you past that person. Keeping up with the next group of people might push you further than you’ve gone. But when are you going to overtake them? When are you going to take the next step to go past them? And more importantly, what will it take?
This was the phrase you heard growing up – “Get to the Big Leagues”. The Big Leagues is where things are serious. When you get there, you will have arrived and this was in no way better mirrored than with sports teams. Oddly enough, Sports teams are one of the last Bastions where a final endpoint exists, everywhere else, the role, the job, the task, the game is constantly changing and shifting. Having to learn…
I don’t know where the existence of desktop computers is going to go in the future, but I still absolutely love my desktop. It is stable. I don’t need or want to carry it everywhere. I don’t need a docking station; it IS the docking station. I never worry about having enough ports. I can do so much more multitasking on it. And best of all, when I sit down to work with it, I…
Software and technology are not so ubiquitous that I am carrying someone’s laptop everywhere I go. And it’s a toss-up whether I get the “old model” or the “new ones we’re rolling out”. Some are good, some aren’t, and eventually we all need an upgrade. Instead, let everyone buy whatever they want and roll out VDI – I’m sure there are issues to fix, but that way people are at the very least getting to…