It's easy to get caught up in the numbers game of social media. But even the most famous folks in tech aren't actually that famous. With the exception of an Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, tech famous folks aren't going to get stopped in the street and they're certainly not signing autographs. Tech famous folks are just like you and me, and that's a relief.

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Cloud empowers you to do stupid at scale. That could be a fat-fingered value, a major security hole, or a poorly written application. Cloud isn't going to fix everything for you, it just let's you do it harder, faster, and more expensively.

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Technology moves too fast for us to accurately predict the future. How do you plan for the next two years when you can barely predict the next six months? The answer doesn't lie in technology. It's people. Always has been.

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Not sure this release deserves an increment in the major version counter, but here we are. Things to get excited about? Snap groups. Things to ignore? Android apps on Windows. Everything else is incremental and cosmetic improvements. Which is fine, but not worth the bluster. Unless you're a newly appointed executive in charge of the Windows Experience and trying to leave your mark.

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It's not necessarily a bad thing, but let's not view the whole decade through rose-tinted glasses. There were some pretty heinous things happening in the 90s, and if we romanticize the past we fail to learn from it.

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I ran out of time. No really, that's the answer to the big mystery. Too many projects and not enough time to do them all. But I've got plans. Ooooh, I've got PLANS.

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Could you get all your work done in four days instead of five? I bet you could. Sure you'd need to be a bit more focused and a bit more miserly with your time. But I bet you could do it, and then you'd have a three-day weekend every week!

The Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/

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You've just finished your shiny new project and made it available to the world. And they love it! That's great. Now you've got to maintain it until people don't love it. How many projects can you sustain and when do you cut off the unwashed masses from your sweet, sweet awesomeness?

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Slogging through a difficult project is challenging for anyone. A conversation today made me think about my approach and consider if there was a better one. It also motivated me to fix some issues with a Terraform course, so that was positive.

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Sure we can create Infrastructure as Code, but does it make more sense to create infrastructure using software? This was an idea put forth by Kris Nova, and I have to admit I find her logic a-pleasing.

Blog post: https://nivenly.com/lib/2021-06-13-ias/

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