I stopped following you today. You probably didn’t notice.
Nothing personal. It’s just life.
Why? As I said — life. An amazing thing happens when you get over-committed as I have in recent months. You finally make real decisions on priorities. When you have too much to do, you do what’s most important — what will cause you pain if it’s not done. The metaphor I use is juggling. You can juggle one ball, two and even, if you practice – three. I guess it’s possible that if you really work at it, you could juggle four. Maybe there is a Zen juggler who could do five things. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter, each of us has a limit, no matter how much we want to focus, practice or will it to be different.
So if you can juggle four and life gives you five — guess what? No matter what happens you are going to drop one. So what do you do? You pick. How? Well, like most people, I presume that you try not to drop the thing that is most likely to break. You try to make the drop as painless as you can.
We all do this every day. More and more we are like the juggler trying to take on more things that we can truly juggle. And what do we do? We drop something. What do we drop? The thing that will hurt us the least.
Unfortunately, that thing was – you.
The Cloud Manifesto
The Catalyst for Cloud
I just spent two great days in Banff at the Cloud Matters conference representing IT World Canada. The conference had over 175 people and a star-studded list of speakers. At the end of the conference, I was part of a panel where each member was asked to give three minutes on what we could do to provide a Catalyst for Cloud Computing in Canada.
Our panel consisted of:
My contribution took the form of a “rant” which I dubbed The Cloud Manifesto – A Catalyst for Cloud. It was partly original opinion, partly ideas inspired by the speakers over the two days of the conference. Here it is…
The Cloud Manifesto – A Catalyst for Cloud
Ten points which will provide a catalyst for the movement to Cloud computing: Continue reading →
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