Things Americans living in Amsterdam ask me to bring back from the US
Webinar! (hole on, this is just an ad, there's a lot more, don't delete this email yet - but read the below - it'll be cool, I promise. Totally chill!) Rick...
Valuing unpaid time
There’s a week left! Pardon the ad, but I’ve worked a lot (and many, many people much, much more than me!) on my company’s annual conference, SpringOne...
Staffing an enterprise software conference booth
Staffing an enterprise software conference booth The point of being at a booth is to talk with people, to tell them about your company, and to see if your...
Find a burning platform
Find a burning platform In the near decade funk of "software eating the world" there are still plenty of companies who see no need to change. They might be...
King Ranch Chicken, talk ideas for agile, dev_ops, and DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
I’ve read that you’re not supposed to complain about travel if you’re in the thought lord and lady racket. This is fine. I must say though, when the Fall...
Be a "tech company"
Be a “tech company” This is a little speech I wrote for an “executive dinner” in Munich. I of course didn’t read it, it just organized my thoughts. It’s a...
IT spending - ~70% to keep the lights on
IT spending - ~70% to keep the lights on What do organizations spend their IT dollars on? Mostly what you’d expect, but you can see one trend relevant to my...
It takes a long time
Tell you friends! I have enough momentum (me actually doing it) and some praise for this newsletter that I’ll pander to you now: help me get more...
The boring maturity model, and, pricing higher
The boring parts of a platform Container people are playing with a “make it boring” maturity model. They’ve tinker away at containers for years and now want...
Developers don't want to use your words
Developers don’t want to use your words People in the Cloud Foundry world are frustrated that the kids are just discovering the helpful, self-service, robust...
Get to know your people
Get to know your people When you use the word “users” with a certain type of, ahem, like, enlightened, happy person (the DevOps Reports calls them “high...
Chicken
Getting more productive isn’t really “cost savings,” at least not until you actually do something new Most “cost savings” metrics we talk about are...
Pancakes in The Hague
Pancakes in The Hague It's travel season for my type, the external facing vendor person. There's conferences, planned executive dinners, and the occasional...
The thrilling world of transit privatization
People are happy to do free work for private companies. Especially stuff like this: It’s driven in part by the understanding that local governments aren’t...
Proving that agile works is a waste
Schwartz's new book is, of course, good: War and Peace and IT. He's the rare tech book author who has style, let alone business book writer. An excerpt on...
Hunter Thompson was more than just gonzo
I finished up the Gonzo movie awhile ago. As ever reflecting on “the production method” and the life-style of a creator is good for meditation. There’s those...
7-10 years for new infrastructure layers to win
7-10 years for new infrastructure layers to win With VMware going all in on kubernetes, my co-host Brandon says the next phase for this market is offering...
The Finance Bottleneck, draft excerpt from my new book
I've been working on a new book for a couple months now. It's taken me many false starts to figure out what I'm writing about and then figure out what to...
Coté's Weekly Wunderkammer
I like to write in an over-the-top style. Hunter Thompson is, of course, one of my favorite writers, along with Nietzsche, and then contra to that Hemingway....
Monolithic Transformation now available in Safari
Just a short note, here, live-to-email from Cape Town! My book is now available in Safari If you’re one of the people who wanted to read Monolithic...