Do IT Certifications Still Move Your Career in 2026?
IT certifications still move careers in 2026, but which ones and why has shifted. The catch is a certificate only helps when it maps to a real skill and role.
Series: Technology (Page 3)
TechnologyThe Four Pillars of a Technical Writer
I started as a technical writer in the 1980s, and it became the foundation for everything I do now. The craft matters more in 2026, not less.
TechnologyHow Writing Builds Growth and Emotional Intelligence
Writing is one of the most effective tools for personal growth, emotional intelligence, and clear thinking. Here is how putting thoughts on paper changes you.
TechnologyCell Phones vs. The Real World
We have become hypnotized by small glowing screens, tuning out driving, conversation, and the world. Here is what it costs and how to put the phone down.
TechnologyIntrovert or Extrovert: How a Camera Changed My Life
I spent most of my life as a deep introvert, and grief pushed me deeper. What pulled me back out was a camera. Here is the story, and what it taught me.
TechnologyFailure Is Success: What a Lifetime of Failing Taught Me
I have failed constantly, and learned that failure is success. The failure is never the problem; what you do with it is. Here is what a lifetime of failing taught me.
TechnologyGhostwriting About IoT: Turning Invisible Expertise Into a Book
IoT expertise is invisible by design, and invisible expertise wins nothing. Here is what an IoT book can be about, how ghostwriting handles deep technical material and NDAs, and who reads these books once they exist.
TechnologyWhen Everything Goes Wrong: A Tech Disaster That Nearly Killed a Company
7:03 AM, driving to a Renaissance Faire shoot with camera gear rattling in the back, the BlackBerry buzzes: what do you want me to do about the computer crash? A cascade of failures had taken the servers, the backups, and…
TechnologyThe Applications Were Never Designed to Come Back
The consultant's heroics got the disks back. Then came the part the first article only promised: bringing up applications that had been written on the assumption they would never stop. No restart procedures, no known states, dependencies documented in nobody's…
TechnologyThe Server Under the Desk
We were hunting for a machine during a disaster recovery effort. Systems were talking to it, work depended on it, and it was not in the server room. We found it under a user's desk in accounting, running decade-old software,…
TechnologyTwenty Years of Disaster Recovery: What the Real Ones Taught Me
Lightning fried a computer room around me. Backhoes cut my DR links. A tabletop exercise with a truck bomb and an active shooter taught a room of professionals that half of them could not authorize anything. Twenty years of disaster…
TechnologyDisaster Recovery Is Part of the Transformation, or It Is Not One
A DR plan is a set of precise claims about a specific environment. A transformation is the deliberate, wholesale changing of that environment. Put those two sentences together and you see the problem most transformation programs never address.