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Russian Electrical Engineer and IT genius, Andrey Stryukov, teaches us how to stop drinking from the firehose, so we can be lazier. IT cannot exist in a separate department Some helpful mind exercises Force yourself to stop and ask, “where do I spend the majority of my time?” Calculating total cost of ownership A successful strategy for...

Jeff Richardson and I talk about the #2 thing you need to get your dream job. How to manage a bunch of kids at scale Cracked bleeding skulls, cancer, & covid Why the public cloud is safer. 99.99999% of IT Directors think they’re the smartest people in the company Stupid things, gift baskets, and don’t...

“If you view infrastructure as a commodity then you should view your business as a commodity.” From Singapore to China to Pandemic killing Pedantic IT mindsets As a business, “Are you going to keep driving is the same lane?” Ex-Ex-Pat Bill Genovese teaches rocket ship trajectory How can technology leaders see things faster? How to...

Tim Kravitz, Logistics Technology HQ Profiling Child Pornographers Reporting to make decisions How IT affects the mission Strategic Thinking The Ivory Tower Effect High Availability Nimbleness Dealing with the Overwhelm Mapping & Planning the attack Emotional Intelligence You worth and market valuation Reverse engineer IT

“IT professionals are an amazing group of people,” Sean Endler. IT Professionals are, “an amazing group of people,” Sean Endler When we are Dissecting Popular IT Nerds … we find amazing talent and

Poachers are looking for Interpersonal skills Its all about networking Likeable Nerds Align Analyze Assess Advise Melting Legacy Mindsets “This is not the way newbie” Money Mentorship

“Seeing is believing” How to build a winning relationship with finance How to get away with coming in over budget Opening tickets and gather logs Not afraid of betas Outage free Dynatrace

Colin McCarthy, VP of Global IT with over 2,000 End Users Who remembers Joe “Nacho” Nacchio? Manic Miner Windows XP “Net Send” hackers (free burritos) ZX Spectrum to Amstrad PC 164 what?? Make people turn on their cameras because this guy found 12 people instead of 1. Getting into bed with these vendors is worse than a...

Steve Porter, IT Expert in Human Behavior Modification Getting End Users to Buy-In or Get Flogged Stay Sane My Fellow Nerds Solving Relationship Problems in Relation What you do in a Decade, IT does in 18 Months Respond by Secret Code The Swag Show

Rail guns and magnetic forces Couldn’t make his first computer work, it ran on LP  Most kids didn’t have the opportunity to grow up int the Atomic Bomb Town To become the CIO just blend what you already do and add some business education   Internships with technology matter. A closet is not a data center....

PJ Way talks about Ethics; an afterthought in today’s age. C-Levels get input, but what about the IT Director? How can we learn intrinsic trust? Covid-19, more like Shadow-19 We’re all doomed Stepping out of the box Creative Feelings and Conjecture, the machines have not.

Taylor Cane Old School IT Auctions LAN parties The critical role of sales engineer Seamless integrations Mouse batteries The language of business is accounting Converting IT people into business analysts Treasure troves of company data

Thad Lutgen (23 years in Business IT) and Phil Howard talk about: Demonstrating the Value of IT to Executive Management Aligning technology with the vision of the organization What to do if your company has no vision Big Picture IT Measuring Results & Soft Costs Creating an IT score card Building better systems to get work...

Kiwi Security Trainer Mike Ouwerkerk talks about how to Teach Suspicion Don’t let your family get liquidated orGet their hearts broken or taken Advantage of.Follow these basic security rulesSpot suspect questions5 common fear tacticsImplement the rules on this episode and… Share this podcast with your family soThey stop calling you for advice andTo fix their insecure technology miss-steps

Todd Shipway, Director of IT at Bossa Nova We work for the robots because… How long before the robots go invisible? Facebook cabling and datacenter work Massive learning networks Understanding scalability The wall of modems Power tripping

Joshua Milos and Phil Howard chill out in our Handmade German Bostonians. Joshua Milos, (IT Applications at Birkenstock) speaking in truths: How people view IT is a result of leadership. What’s IT’s relationship with the business. Shiny object distractions German Companies Build a team. Operation umbrella storm (application takeover) Canada…. nothing legacy about IT TRS80...

Scott Geye, IT Audit Manager and Phil Howard review IT due diligence Malware causing iron spills Lost Laptops Storing data on behalf of others Battle scars Multi-factor authentication Pen testing User training Articulating risks specifically

Future-obsessed IT leader Eduardo Siman presents… Possessed Demon Samsung TV, named “local host” There is no vacation for IT You must cross train. mass migration to nature. underestimating negative outcomes We are the scientists in the company. If you don’t have data, I don’t want to hear it…unless you’re the CEO It’s not about knowing...

12 questions you want to ask any MSP Psychologically test your people Myers & Briggs People skills versus technical skills. Cookie cutter ways of treating clients Great project managers What Kind of Nerd you? Take the quiz:https://www.dissectingpopularitnerds.com/quiz/

Having trouble selling that Cloud migration to upper management?  Just have your CEO to Listen to this episode... IT leader, Matthew Parks makes the argument for the cloud a no brainer.  Breaking Legacy Mindsets before Legacy Systems breakThe Cloud = 99 ...