Research VP at Gartner. I was social distancing before it was cool
Indianapolis
Joined February 2011
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When did @SouthwestAir become the airline of “the crew hasn’t arrived yet”? Every flight.
When @LinkedIn really, really, really wants you to follow your high school classmate's concrete company...
(watching YouTube tutorial)
2:50 in: Oh, I understand, I've got it.
(five minutes later, returning to same video)
4:17 in: Aha, that's what I was missing.
(seventeen minutes later, returning to video)
5:51 in: Of course. I get it now.
(repeat until 25 minute video is over)
Just realized the password to my Amazon account is the same one I made up to use on BBSes in the 80s.
Successfully changed now. Having a very productive Friday.
"There are no analyst emergencies." Tired of being on call? Want to put your monitoring and observability skills to use influencing the entire industry? Come work for Gartner - and my team. gartner.wd5.myworkdayjobs.co…
I'm hiring a monitoring and observability/SRE technical professional to join us at Gartner. You will advise thousands of our clients and dozens of vendors - and you get to work with ME! I mean... c'mon. Win-win.
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Eli wins the internet.
My annual list of overused words/phrases that need to die this year:
- Just sayin'
- That's what I'm talkin' 'bout (when you were not, in fact, just talkin' 'bout that)
- "try and", a.k.a. "tryun", when you mean "try to"
- The suffix "-wise"
My annual* list of overused words/phrases I’d like to see die in the new year:
- just sayin
- hits different
- cringe / cringeworthy
- been a minute since
- buzzfeed
- <anything>-gate
Feel free to add more but I might fight you – at Indianapolis, IN
Once upon a time there was a quiet little Gartner research area called "work from home". Suddenly, things happened and it was no longer even a little quiet.
Want to join my team? Seeking an eager analyst for End User Technologies!
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Considering legally changing my name at this point. What I've learned so far:
- I love staying home until someone tells me I have to
- Long car rides are an excellent way to take a conference call
- My 80s poofy hair is back, baby! (offer not valid at hairline and crown)
Ref gets run over. Booger McFarland: heh heh heh
Player paralyzed on field. Booger McFarland: heh heh heh
Please replace him
Listening to @drcarltonsapp talking Intelligent Automation at the #gartnerCAT London keynote - “How can I leverage ML in my architecture?” – at Lambeth, London
