Intentionally Ignoring the Inessential

I’ve skipped a couple of weeks of blog posts in preparation for my presentations at SQL Server Live last week in Orlando. Hopefully, I’ll be able to make up for the lost time. I don’t want to claim that I have an OCD but most people think I do. Let me explain. I was raised […]

The Pen and Paper in the Digital Age of Social Media

I wanted to start this blog post with a reference to a TED Talk by Hannah Brencher about love letters to strangers. In an earlier blog post, I talked about my experience with working on a large SharePoint 2010 upgrade and migration project for a Fortune 500 company. I’ve told people stories about why the […]

What A Technical Review Process Taught Me About Leadership

The past couple of months have been very busy for me. Aside from work-related travel, I have been preparing and studying for the Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server 2008 certification, something that I haven’t really thought about and planned for until last August (that’s left for another blog post.) But one thing that really […]

How Does Your Personal Growth Plan Look Like?

This is a response to Michael Hyatt’s (blog | Twitter) and John Maxwell’s (blog | Twitter) blog post on reaching our fullest potential. In 2003, I have had the privilege of attending Dr. John C. Maxwell’s conference in Manila, Philippines because I was part of the event hosts’ production staff (being a volunteer sound engineer […]