Why GE Digital Failed | Inc.com
Yet another big, dumb company telling lies about innovation and digital.
The #1 reason Facebook won’t ever change – Om Malik
Facebook makes$27 per quarter from US consumers - it cannot possibly change.
Big Changes Ahead for Core Internet Protocols – IETF Journal
Excellent summary of what seems to be poorly understood. IPv6 is going nowhere slowly but the higher level protocols are changing today. Now, significant changes to the core Internet protocols are underway. While they are intended to be compatible with the Internet at large (since they won’t get adoption otherwise), they might be disruptive to […]
NANOG Keynote: History of the Internet (it was not the bomb)
Scott Bradner retired in late 2016 after more than 50 years in Harvard University IT. Along the way he worked in the IETF for 25 years – 10 on the IESG – and served on the ISOC & ARIN boards.
Evidence-based Troubleshooting: Observations on Problem-solving from Economic Psychology
Excellent piece on psychology of being a technology worker. MUST READ. For those of us who work in technology, we pride ourselves in our rationalism. We deal in the territory of binary math, algorithms, and logic. Yet we often fail to step back and see ourselves as mere mortals. We acknowledge some disciplines suffer from […]
Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least creative results — Quartz
The complexity of modern problems often precludes any one person from fully understanding them. Factors contributing to rising obesity levels, for example, include transportation systems and infrastructure, media, convenience foods, changing social norms, human biology and psychological factors. Designing an aircraft carrier, to take another example, requires knowledge of nuclear engineering, naval architecture, metallurgy, hydrodynamics, […]
Project management was the worst thing that ever happened to IT | The IT Skeptic
Goals and outcomes change. ITIL-centric projects do not.
Cisco Gets Yet Another CVSS 10 for ASA & Firepower | Threatpost
Yet another CVSS 10 for Cisco security products
AT&T to Release “dNOS” Software Framework Into Open Source to Accelerate Network White Box Adoption
dNOS goes to Linux Foundation to be Open (instead of half closed)
Response: 99% of all ads permitted by Google ‘ad blocker’
The Google ad-blocker is that isn’t an ad blocker. Unsurprisingly.
Exclusive: U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice – sources | Article [AMP] | Reuters
Once again, why bother implementing IT Security when there is no downside.
Response: Intent-based networking portends the future of infrastructure management
Kurt Marko does a great job of explaining Intent Based Networking as an overall trend. I broadly agree with this perspective. Intent based networks are the new hotness among those needing a response to network complexity. We provide the 101 along with a reality check on what is available today. Intent-based networking portends the future […]
CCIE Flash Card Deck for R&S v5.1 – neckercube.com
For those wanting to learn, a generous contribution
Source Serif Pro font V2 released – GitHub
Good fonts make writing easier