The Rock Star in the Computer Room

I'd like to thank Phil and David at The Slacker Manager for asking me to write a guest post for their blog:

How many IT people do you see holding court at parties? How many of us hope to be seated next to a technical architect on our next flight?

Introduce yourself as an IT person at a party (I know, I’ve done this) and they all start telling stories about how IT has let them down. When you try to defend the IT industry by explaining that there are, for example, limitations to IP addressing, or that distributed databases lack mathematical rigor, they just laugh, if they’re even listening at all.

>>>Read the rest of The Rock Star in the Computer Room, my guest post at The Slacker Manager.