Tag Archives: career

Individual Contributions

Each person on a team, or even in a company, can contribute something. Steve Jones reminds us not to assume we are better than others because of our job. Continue reading

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The DBA Financial Analyst

Will DBAs need to perform more complex financial analysis of the options they consider when building and tuning software systems? Steve Jones thinks it might be a skill needed in cloud computing. Continue reading

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Personal Investments

This Friday Steve Jones talks about your career, and training, and what you are doing about it. Continue reading

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Drive

I saw a short talk from Dan Pink a few months back from this year’s TED conference. It’s very cool, and worth watching. After watching the video, I bought the book, Drive. This book goes through some the reasons why … Continue reading

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