I participated in my first Twitter Space today and I'm not sure about the medium. As much as I love consuming audio, I also love time-shifting it to when is convenient for me. It also left me wondering how Spaces plans to monetize.

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Lots of Microsoft info in my reading feed this week. I though I would highlight a few things. The death of Windows 10X, the deep discount on the Surface Duo, and discontinuing of Azure Blockchain. I appreciate that Microsoft is willing to experiment with new ideas and drop those ideas when they don't pan out.

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Spoiler alert! It's super-complicated. Identity started out relatively simple. You had your on-premises Active Directory or LDAP organization and you were good to go. The cloud era has brought new challenges to managing identity between cloud providers and SaaS solutions.

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And just like that, poof, it's dust in the wind. Well, maybe not right away. But I'm thinking Windows as a server and desktop operating system has about ten years left in it. What will replace it? Hint: it's already here.

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Your career is going to be a long series of failures, punctuated by occasional success. Learn from those failures and bask in the success!

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The beginning of May marks the two year anniversary of my self-employed life. I thought I might reflect on what I've learned over the last 24 months, and what the future holds.

May 6th is World Password Day and that means two things to me. First, start using a password manager. Second, enable 2FA on any sites you use frequently. Together we can make passwords better, or even better make them disappear.

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May 6th is World Password Day and that means two things to me. First, start using a password manager. Second, enable 2FA on any sites you use frequently. Together we can make passwords better, or even better make them disappear.

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The magic of cloud isn't the elasticity or the cost model, it's the API candy store! If on-prem wants a fighting chance to host new applications, it needs to adopt the magic of cloud and offer services developers care about.

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Keeping yourself a little removed from a technology or a fandom helps tremendously with perspective. Whether its Star Wars, Kubernetes, or BTS, having perspective allows you to place things in the proper context and act appropriately.

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Have you ever found that you do better on a task the first time you try it than the subsequent attempts? Does it take you five or six tries to get back to the same level as that first attempt? That happens to me a lot, and I think I know why.

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