Retirement
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Retirement

One of my co-workers at EMC always wanted to be an EMC Fellow. He said, "When you're a Fellow, they put you in a corner and leave you alone so…
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The Decision to Blog
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The Decision to Blog

Perhaps the most surprising, never-saw-it-coming event of my career was the decision to start a public-facing blog. It all started when EMC blogger Chuck Hollis showed up at an internal…
Hyper-productivity
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Hyper-productivity

I've previously written that during my career I (a) limited myself to forty hours a week and (b) controlled my visibility. These two decisions helped me focus on what I…
Visibility Avoidance
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Visibility Avoidance

I've previously written that one of the keys to my enjoyable career was limiting myself to forty hours a week. Not only did this practice help me enjoy work more,…
Pairing at the Dojo
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Pairing at the Dojo

I spent the month of January pairing with the Dell EMC Dojo team at the Pivotal Labs facility in Cambridge, MA. As I've reflected on the experience there are three…
Listen, Think, Create
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Listen, Think, Create

This week I was in Dublin, Ireland to attend ITAC Europe (EMC's Industry Technical Advisory Council). During the meeting the CTO of EMC shared his thoughts on the technology direction…