Life in a post-Twitter world — Me: “So, I quit Twitter — now what?” Him: “You’ll just find another place to scroll.” Feeling the Addiction My friend’s response was accurate. Not yet a month away from the Twitter timeline, I am still wondering what could (should?) replace it in my world. I find myself attempting to look at online…

6 Key Techniques In my work as a contract Cloud Architect, I’ve seen a good number of customers attempting to move key application workloads to the cloud from a number of different types of environments (on-premise, colo…) over the past 10+ years. …

Increasingly I am working with technical teams to modernize legacy data analysis pipelines. I’ve done most, but not all, of this work in the bioinformatics domain. Despite this, the emergent patterns are applicable to legacy pipeline projects in a number of domains. I’ve written a list of key stages, activities…

Today is a special day in my family, the circle of karma has turned. To understand why, I have to tell something from my own story. You may know that currently, I am a Cloud Architect and contract technical author on Linked In Learning. I’ve authored over 30 courses total…

August 2020: I read a story about a new angel investment fund with interest. Yet, doubt plagued me. “Is this really for me?” After a detailed conversation with the fund’s founder, Reed Robinson, I joined his Groove Capital fund as an angel investor in in early 2021. …

So many dimensions, so little time. Today, I took a journey into the realm of the quantum mirror. I share a very short story in pictures for your enjoyment. First I entered the chamber and let myself be immersed in lights, sounds and colors. Then I looked up and discovered…

Working with clients over the past twelve years, I’ve seen cloud services evolve more quickly than knowledge about how best to use them. To that end, my recent contracts have involved more and more modernization work of legacy cloud applications. …

Big birthday this month and I already got what I wanted — to see my waist again. What a difference a year makes. “Add, don’t subtract” in Feb 2020 the words of my food coach seemed impractical. “Does that mean eat more?” I impertinently asked. tl;dr Eat more, weigh less …

Social Audio Linguistics Late to the party, I recently accepted an invite to Clubhouse. From my expansive balcony on warm summer evenings, I have been curiously dropping in and out of culturally different rooms as a substitute for pre-pandemic global travel. Over time, linguistic patterns materialize. But first… Basic Taxonomy Clubhouse is…