Before my first VMworld experience in 2017, I was completely overwhelmed with how to spend my time at the conference.  With so many activities happening, how do you decide?  Despite this being a vi...

It’s been 3 years since Nerd Journey’s official launch, and the time has flown by.  I wrote reflection posts at launch, at the one year mark, when we hit 100 episodes…but this one, written at the 3...

When co-hosting a podcast, you try to find the theme of the episode and create a catchy title.  Recently we had a virtual farewell for a beloved co-worker and friend, and one of the folks in the me...

Recently I’ve been reading A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring by John Wooden and Don Yaeger, and I came across an interesting quote from former UCLA player Andy Hill that struck me: Y...

I recently learned VMware has an open source project for chaos engineering called Mangle, and I thought it would be fun to do a little exploring.  After all, the name sounds pretty cool, and I know...

I recently read a great blog by Tom Hillingsworth called Racing on the Edge of Burnout, and it was one of those reads that made me sit and think for a while.  Then I read it again and thought a bit...

I remember the article snippet taped to the mirror above my bed during high school and college.  It was an article written by pro golfer Curtis Strange.  In the article, Strange talked about how po...

This is part 7 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service.  The goal of this post is to successfully instrument an Azure function for OpenTracing to visuali...

In 2019, I posted my reading list here and some reasons for the choices.  In early 2020 I began to wonder if I could keep up the same pace or perhaps even accelerate it. When you tell family and fr...

Not that a post can’t be personal, but this one is more personal than most you will see from me.  The words in part 1 below were written by my wife, and it’s something I think is worth sharing.  An...