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This is a blog for John Weber. One of my joys in life is helping others get ahead in life. Content here will be focused on that from this date forward. John was a Skype for Business MVP (2015-2018) - before that, a Lync Server MVP (2010-2014). I used to write a variety of articles (https://tsoorad.blogspot.com) on technical issues with a smattering of other interests. I have a variety of certifications dating back to Novell CNE and working up through the Microsoft MCP stack to MCITP multiple times. FWIW, I am on my third career - ex-USMC, retired US Army. I have a fancy MBA. The opinions expressed on this blog are mine and mine alone.

2009/05/13

The Black Swan

Started reading “The Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (whoever he is).  This item hit my reading list because of a recommendation regarding (believe it or not) BCDR (Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery) discussions in a recent training event.

The “hired gun” was pontificating (and doing very well, I might add) at some BCDR point, when, out came a reference to this book.

I try hard to learn from everything I do; I also admit that I have severe shortcomings in this area - but I work on it.  So when this pontificator spouted this BCDR drivel, I wrote down the name of the book, and we moved on.  However, by the end of the session, I had added the book to my shopping cart on Amazon.

Two reasons.  Numero Uno, Andrew Ehrensing (the hired gun) impressed the hell out of me - if he thought this book was worth reading, maybe there was something to it.  Number 2, the guns’ soliloquy made a tremendous amount of sense - I intend to make reference to it the next time I am in front of a customer. Ergo, I needed to at least skim the material so I could nominally refer to it.

Wow.  I just finished the prologue.  If the rest of this book is as good as the opening, then this is a real gem.

Thank you Andrew!

test 02 Feb

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