What a year..
Personally, the most trying.. coping with this "pandemic," including being there for teenage daughters... but more substantially the loss of my father ... then within a week lost my long-standing companion, Cocoa, a Labrador Retriever (the last two completely unrelated to this pandemic furor).
Professionally, found myself marveling at the collective unwillingness (inability?) of many sectors to welcome intellectual honesty around cloud capability. I walked away from the enticing option of "check-box" certification (I have a Harvard MBA, for God's sake!) exams in favor of implementing the tech (just because your staff or new hire has a certification doesn't mean they can efficiently implement a solution appropriate for your environment)... yet in spite of very loud public whining about a scarcity of cloud implementation skills, no one I didn't have a personal relationship with five years ago was willing to meet to review findings.True, I'm not on any Gartner matrix. But doesn't everyone agree Gartner is a pay-to-play domain? Are we really okay with a model that favors India's Brahmin class over our own innovation (no, not just me... spent some time with a few engineering innovators who finally concluded "my baby is ugly" and left a brilliant solution to keep customers happy in another domain.
