Blog Posts
I have my own simple blog and I also guest-blog for others.
Miscellaneous Blogs
Longer posts on various topics.
- 17 Jan 2024 - Discord Server for Content Q&A
- 10 Nov 2023 - Certification Study Plan Updates
- 20 May 2023 - Copyright Infringement on YouTube
- 26 Oct 2021 - Microdiscectomy Megathread
My Blog Experiment
Succinct ~3 minute blog posts. Updated weekly-ish.
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- 1 Dec 2019 - Hypothesis
- 30 Nov 2019 - Young Money
- 23 Nov 2019 - Underestimation
- 16 Nov 2019 - Competition
- 9 Nov 2019 - Power Supply
- 2 Nov 2019 - Watch Officer
- 26 Oct 2019 - Sales Psychology
- 23 Oct 2019 - Advanced Tactics
- 19 Oct 2019 - Innovation
- 12 Oct 2019 - Modern Retailing
- 5 Oct 2019 - Product Cost
- 28 Sep 2019 - Knowledge
- 21 Sep 2019 - Trolls vs. Contrarians
- 14 Sep 2019 - Why?
- 7 Sep 2019 - Meeting Capital
- 31 Aug 2019 - Rejection
- 23 Aug 2019 - No Questions Asked
- 17 Aug 2019 - One Year in Business
- 10 Aug 2019 - Ansoff Matrix
- 3 Aug 2019 - Hidden Costs
- 27 Jul 2019 - Forecasts
- 20 Jul 2019 - American Colleges
- 13 Jul 2019 - Good Debt
- 6 Jul 2019 - Ideas Are Commodity
- 29 Jun 2019 - Loser DNA
- 22 Jun 2019 - Conferences
- 15 Jun 2019 - Monopolies Are Bad
- 8 Jun 2019 - How Not to Write a Book
- 1 Jun 2019 - Procrastination
- 29 May2019 - Sales Ethics
- 25 May 2019 - Perception Is Reality
- 18 May 2019 - Consulting "Rates"
- 11 May 2019 - Quality is Free
- 4 May 2019 - The Comfort Zone
- 27 Apr 2019 - What is Your Time Worth?
- 20 Apr 2019 - It's Too Complex
- 13 Apr 2019 - The Real Power of Kanban
- 6 Apr 2019 - Well, Technically
- 5 Apr 2019 - Single Points of Failure
- 30 Mar 2019 - Win Together
- 23 Mar 2019 - The Soul of a Slave
- 16 Mar 2019 - Kanban vs. Scrum
- 9 Mar 2019 - How To Read More
- 2 Mar 2019 - My Secret To Success
- 23 Feb 2019 - Net Income vs. Cash Flow
- 16 Feb 2019 - Good, Cheap, Fast; Pick Any Three
- 9 Feb 2019 - Mind Your Own Business
- 2 Feb 2019 - Busy is the New Lazy
- 27 Jan 2019 - Time Value of Money
- 26 Jan 2019 - Cleaning with Lean
Guest Blogs
Information Technology
General discussions around engineering and modern IT.
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Gestalt "IT Origins" Interview
Personal interview on how I started in IT and how it evolved over time.
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Network Career Interview
Another personal interview where I opine about automation, certifications, SDN, and more.
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Nornir ASA Rule Checker (narc) DevNet Blog, part 1
Exploration into a recent Nornir/Netmiko project with webinar.
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Nornir ASA Rule Checker (narc) DevNet Blog, part 2
Covers peripheral topics like documentation, testing, mocking, and CI.
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IPv4 Network Address Translation (NAT) Deep Dive
Explore various forms of static, dynamic, and carrier-grade NAT44.
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Influencing Ingress BGP Routing using Communities and Local Preference
An alternative approach to signaling routing paths to upstream peers.
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Influencing Ingress BGP Routing using Conditional Route Advertisement
Yet another approach to controlling ingress traffic at the Internet edge.
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Smarter iBGP Tie-Breaking for BGP Egress Routing
Influence BGP bestpath selection using the cost-community with various points of insertion.
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Your New Favorite Cisco IOS Troubleshooting Command
Master the "show adjacency" command to troubleshoot MTU/encapsulation problems.
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Reorienting DevOps for IT Operators
Applying well-known concepts of DevOps in an IT context using infrastructure as code.
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IP Loop Free Alternate (LFA) deep dive including remote (rLFA) and topology-independent (TI-LFA) variants.
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Introducing IP Loop Free Alternates (LFA) with OSPFv2
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Exploring Downstream and Node-protecting IP LFAs using OSPFv2
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Examining Broadcast Disjointedness and IP LFA Coverage with OSPFv2
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Improving IP LFA Coverage using Remote LFA with MPLS and OSPFv2
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Maximizing IP LFA Coverage using Topology-independent LFA and Segment Routing
Certifications
Advice around achieving industry certifications.
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CCIE SPv4 Review
I documented my CCIE SPv4 journey when the exam was first introduced.
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Cisco Certified DevNet Associate Review
My thoughts on the DEVASC exam, including study tips.
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Cisco Certified DevNet Professional Core Review
My thoughts on the DEVCOR exam, including study tips.
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Cisco Certified DevNet Enterprise Automation Review
My thoughts on the ENAUTO exam, including study tips.
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Cisco Certified DevNet Security Automation Review
My thoughts on the SAUTO exam, including study tips.
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Cisco Certified DevNet Service Provider Automation Review
My thoughts on the SPAUTO exam, including study tips.
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Cisco Certified DevNet DevOps Review
My thoughts on the DEVOPS exam, including study tips.
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Cisco Certified DevNet Data Center Automation Review
My thoughts on the DCAUTO exam, including study tips.
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Cisco Service Provider Core Exam Review
My thoughts on the SPCOR exam, including study tips.
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CCDE Practical Strategy, Part 1
I compare CCDE to CCIE RS and CCIE SP and talk about methods to succeed.
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CCDE Practical Strategy, Part 2
I discuss the exam environment itself and the tools available to candidates.
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