Spinning ever faster

The world’s not spinning any faster… but working in IT these days sees my thoughts spinning faster than ever. I’m a career IT guy and I have to stay on top of this stuff. Not just for my career, but it’s just who I am. It’s in my DNA.

I’ve done this tech stuff for a long time, and I’m pretty quick on the uptake. But it’s getting crazy out there. The rate of tech advance increases day by day, creating new or deeper specializations over time. It’s a time-consuming effort to maintain the general knowledge to manage IT well.

Mind you, that general knowledge is actually highly specialized tech knowledge. And very valuable it is too. So, in an effort to make it more accessible for myself, I’m gong to start writing down my thoughts. Maybe even organizing them.

And perhaps they will be useful not just for me. So here we go…