I got the chance to present at AWS Summit in NYC on 7/12! I’ve had several people ask me what the speech was about so I thought I’d throw together a few blog posts that walk through the talk. I’m going to break it up in to three posts: Part 1: My CIO Doesn’t Do […]
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Book Review: Mindset by Carol Dweck
I can usually tell by 15 pages in to a self-help book whether it’s going to resonate with me; usually, it’s not going to. I can’t stand being told about how much I can get done in the morning if I start at 3am or that if I work 10x harder than everyone else it […]
2021 New Years Resolutions
2020 was a year where I expected to just entrench and work on establishing myself at IBM. It was a really good year for that, and (thanks to a lack of travel and a bit of a COVID slow period) also allowed me to set some pretty ambitious fitness goals. That leaves me feeling pretty […]
My Next Move: IBM “Journey to the Cloud”
I’m really excited to announce that I’ve taken a job with IBM, in their advisory cloud consulting service. The team I’ll be leading will be looking at how organizations can architect internal and external cloud solutions on both IBM/RedHat products/clouds as well as on other external providers like AWS/Azure/GCP. I will be based out of […]
New Year’s Resolutions 2019
2019 is starting off in a great place; I’m very happy with the friendships/relationships that I’ve formed in New York over the last couple years (and the ones I’ve maintained via distance), I have a chance to work on a really interesting project at work, and I’m in reasonably good physical shape. The past few […]
The Blog of Burgher Jon Returns!
I’m sure the nearly no one who almost never read it will rejoice. It’s not a cgrand re-entry; I’m as ambivelant as ever about how many people read or enjoy it. It’s back online because I have missed having a place for long form expression. I enjoy thinking through something long enough to have a […]