My name is Vidad Cosonok and I am an IT Professional who lives and works in England.
The intention of this blog is to share information and ideas, provide easy to follow procedures, help my fellow IT Professionals with solutions to problems (in the same way that other blogs have helped me massively in the past, and will continue to help me massively in the future) and also act as an easy to get to repository for notes.
If you happen across this blog, and happen to read any of the posts herein, I hope you find them to be informative.
Please feel free to post any comments and questions - I am most grateful to be enlightened whenever I make errors or where there is a better way. Alternatively, please feel free to email me at i @ cosonok.com (without the spaces which are there for spam-crawler and spam-bot avoidance) and I will endeavour to reply at the earliest opportunity.
Cheers!If you happen across this blog, and happen to read any of the posts herein, I hope you find them to be informative.
Please feel free to post any comments and questions - I am most grateful to be enlightened whenever I make errors or where there is a better way. Alternatively, please feel free to email me at i @ cosonok.com (without the spaces which are there for spam-crawler and spam-bot avoidance) and I will endeavour to reply at the earliest opportunity.
The Out of the Way Bit
Chuck Hollis (VP and CTO at EMC) wrote an excellent article Ten Career Tips I've Learned The Hard Way ; I'm listing the 10 key points down here for reference:
1) Enjoy What You Do
2) Always Be Curious
3) Be Persistently Patient
4) Learn To Really Listen ... And Really Communicate
5) Be Yourself, Not Someone Else
6) Learn To Think Big
7) Share Freely
8) Encourage People
9) Be Optimistic
10) Life Is More Than Work
And another excellent article from Chuck Hollis - The Six Key Attributes Of Great Leaders - again listing the key points below for reference:
1) Great Leaders Are Humble -- But Blended With Contagious Passion
2) Great Leaders Are Paranoid -- But Never Scared, Never Truly At Rest
3) Great Leaders Have Experienced Failure -- But Have Learned Some Great Lessons
4) Great Leaders Are Highly Disciplined, But Not Regimented -- They Foster Creativity
5) Great Leaders Value Bright Individuals -- But Worship Teams and Teamwork
6) Great Leaders Deflect Praise, Collect Blame -- And Give Back
And from www.forbes.com:
Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions:
1) Can you do the job?
2) Will you love the job?
3) Can we tolerate working with you?
The Even More Out of the Way Bit
Cosonok's List of Top 7 Quotations (with annotations):
1) Unattributed - "If you fear something you face it."
Essentially it is saying: accept your fear, do not let it get the better of you, face it, face it down, and overcome it, then what you once feared you fear no more. The act of facing your fears ultimately leads to becoming fearless!
2) Ursula Le Guin - "The duty of an individual is to accept no rule."
This quote comes from an anarchist character in Ursula Le Guin's excellent Sci-Fi novel "The Dispossessed." You do not have to be an anarchist to appreciate it though. You are not an automaton, no one can rule you; at the same time everyone needs to follow orders, obey instructions, do their duty – so to speak – but accept your rights as an individual (which includes the right to rebel from unjust would-be rulers), and retain your own personal identity.
3) Unattributed (Thai Philosophy) - "Anything worth doing – even work – should have some element of fun!"
Our conscious lives are very short in the grand scheme of things. There is nothing beneficial in being glum or miserable; so, with whatever task you do, find an element of fun and smile!
4) Hunter S. Thompson - "Anything worth doing, is worth doing well."
Needs no annotation!
5) Unattributed - "If it is hard to learn to do something well, learn to be happy doing it poorly."
This might appear to counteract the previous quote, but not so. There are many things in life which we do, where we are never going to be anything other than mediocre at; this quote is kind of like saying – it is okay to accept being less than brilliant at something, and be happy doing it all the same.
6) Unattributed - "Life is all about finding the right balance."
This is very true – you need to find the right balance between work, and play / relationships / family life. You need to find the right balance between being under-prepared and being over-prepared for something. And the list goes on ... In other words - not too much of one thing, and not too little of the other.
7) Pericles - "Come gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles!"
Put in another way – "Does it really matter?" There are so many things we fret about, and half the time they don't really matter – we sit on trifles; things we attach a lot of importance too, but are not really that important.
And a bonus one:
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