# archive
All blog posts written prior to 2024
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[ Industry events ] 1 min read
My wife and I were reviewing our post-Cisco Live plans (hint: we’re Disney junkies) and came across a nifty deal that we were unaware of. We’ve already made our plans, but this might be useful to some of you out there …
[ Industry events ] 5 min read
_ “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”_ Peter Drucker One of the questions that gets asked a lot when people find out that I go to the Cisco Live convention every year is, …
[ Industry events ] 1 min read
(A “Transformers” promotional image originally appeared here but was lost in a previous site migration.)
[ Networking ] 6 min read
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” Yogi Berra Usually, no matter how much planning, testing, thinking about, or stalling you build in to an upgrade project, the bill …
[ Leadership and career ] 5 min read
We’re adding a little something to this month’s sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired. In …
[ Networking ] 5 min read
“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem–neat, plausible, and wrong.” H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920 I had an interesting conversation today with a cohort of mine regarding network …
[ Industry events ] 1 min read
I just received this from one of my Linked-in groups and thought I’d share it: Early Bird pricing discount for Orlando ends this month. Register now to save up to $300 http://bit.ly/2013Rg Scheduler opens 26 March. …
[ Leadership and career ] 4 min read
The Burnout “You don’t burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.” — Cliff Burton I used to wonder how a person can “burn out,” get bored, or otherwise grow tired of doing something …
[ Leadership and career ] 5 min read
“Life is hard. It’s harder if you’re stupid.” — John Wayne Dear Applicant, I know it must have hurt you to find out that you were not selected for the position you interviewed for with my company. I know that based …
[ Leadership and career ] 4 min read
“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.” — Samuel Clemens It was 1980 when the most wonderful and magical thing that my then 6‑year-old brain could imagine happened. I was …