Preserving What Was Lost In late 2021, I hosted a call to interview a number of the top individual contributors inside VMware with a single goal - pass along the career advice they had gained from ...

How do you know when a body of work is complete? When should a long-running project come to an end? After asking various forms of this question so many times to guests on the Nerd Journey Podcast, ...

Every week, regardless of where I am or why I’m there, I make time to do something I love - podcasting. Hotel rooms, coffee shops, cruise ships, and the passenger seat of a car make great editing s...

Deep inside VMware’s Office of the CTO (or OCTO as we lovingly call it) lies an innovation engine, a secret weapon you might not realize exists.  It’s called xLabs, a team of brilliant minds workin...

It’s been 5 years since John White suggested we start a podcast together.  In July of 2022, Nerd Journey quietly hit the 4 year mark since initial launch.  And now we’ve reached 200 episodes, possi...

This post marks day 67 of an experiment I decided to do for myself.  Consider what follows to be my write up of observations throughout the experimentation process.  Instead of trying to convince y...

You have likely heard the news that VMworld 2022 is now VMware Explore 2022.  That’s 6 different events across the word that kick off with VMware Explore US in late August 2022 followed by events i...

After publishing my reading list from 2019 and again in 2020, it seemed only fitting to continue the trend for 2021.  This past year there were some book goals I socialized on Nerd Journey, so we’l...

There’s no place like burnout for the holidays.  You can run, but you can’t hide.  Perhaps the possibility of being burned out never crossed your mind.  Stop for a second, and let’s explore.  The a...

Roger Federer has long been my favorite tennis player.  Sports commentators have often mentioned his fluid movements and graceful game on the tennis court.  He makes playing tennis look like an art...