9 out of 10 monkeys believe they are not behind glass

so very true

“So…. I am thinking about running for president.”

“President?”  Her eyes went slightly wide.  “Like president of the United States?”

“Eventually.”

“But you hate politics.”

“Yeah.”  I shrug.

“Don’t you have to be in politics to run for President?  Have money and all that?”

“Right now you do.  By the time I run, things will be different.”

“Different?”

“The world can change a lot in 20 years.  Is it so hard to think that my kind of crazy may be normal by then?”

“God help us, I hope not.”

1. There are few things in life that are actually worth remembering. The rest can all be looked up somewhere. Memorization is for those that seek to impress, pass tests, or just be foolish with the neurons they were blessed with. Better to learn how to multitask than to memorize. Remembering how to find info and be able to find it fast is far greater a skill than knowing which layer of the OSI model packets are created. Memorization is for certifications, multitasking is for the actual job that needs to be done.
2. Any IT person can do any IT job. It all boils down to speed of adaptation. If a person can adapt patterns of learning and research to a new job, within the required period of time, that person can do that job. One does not require 4 years of router experience to be able to be a router admin. Sure that 4 years may speed adaptation, but since every environment is so different anyway (see next), it will take them the same amount of time to come up to speed as a driven competent individual.
3. Every company has to do it different. Sure there are industry standards and best practices… but in the end, it (whatever ‘it’ is) involves humans. Humans intentionally or unintentionally exert personal bias into everything they do… leading to an organic growth of the sum of the biases of the team, the group, the company into an unique set of practices, procedures and culture. There is no escaping human nature and our need to make things our own. Every person has to do it different. A company that finds people that all seem to do it the same way is the company that “finds” competitive advantage.
4. I may believe there is a god. You may not believe in a god or may believe in a different god, and you know what? That is ok. Niether of us have any right or reason to force our opinion on the other. Religion is a shield idiots and cowards hide behind when they seek to jusitfy their own weak human agenda.
5. There are two things one should not discuss in mixed company. Religion (see previous) and Politics. Both are a waste of time in discussing… because at the end, you still believe what you want to believe and I still believe what I want to believe.
6. Governments require resets. And I don’t care how advanced they are. Famine, Economic collapse, invading hordes… eventually every government is reset. The United States should be the first to reset voluntarily and not through negative circumstance.