Great Coaches for Development of Kids - Winning and Succeeding by trying your best

My son just finished his first year of pee wee tackle football where he was the amongst the smallest and youngest players on the team.  It was kind of scary seeing him go out in first practice with kids that were 20 lbs heavier, 6-8 inches taller and 2 years older, but he persevered and enjoyed the practices and games.  Here is a video where coaches were giving out awards at end of season.

Some parents are a little obsessed with winning and being competitive.  We’ve all seen what happens when the parents get out of hand being hyper competitive.

One of these days I hope to get my kids to absorb more life lessons like John Wooden articulates so well in this Ted Talk.

Some excellent points made.

Never try to be better than someone else, always learn from others. Never cease trying to be the best you can be -- that's under your control. If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to the things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control.Then I ran across this simple verse that said, "At God's footstool to confess, a poor soul knelt, and bowed his head. 'I failed!' He cried. The Master said, 'Thou didst thy best, that is success.'"

3:01From those things, and one other perhaps, I coined my own definition of success, which is: peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable. I believe that's true. If you make the effort to do the best of which you're capable, to try and improve the situation that exists for you, I think that's success. And I don't think others can judge that.

DatacenterDynamics hires Uptime Institute's Bruce Taylor for EVP of North America and Consolidates from 9 to 3 events for 2015

As fast as the the data center industry changes it is ironic that the media/research companies move at a slower pace. 

What is one of the most interesting things to happen in the data center event/media/research industry is long time Uptime Institute executive Bruce Taylor is now Executive VP of DatacenterDynamics North America according to his LinkedIn profile

Also on Oct 31 DatacenterDynamics announced it is consolidating its US events from 9 to 3 with events in SF, Chicago, and NYC.

Starting in 2015, DCD Converged will shift from nine, one-day regional-market events to three larger-scale two-day conferences in the US. The revamped events program will focus on the three primary data center vertical classes: enterprise, internet and services.

The enterprise-focused event will take place March 17–18, 2015, at the New York Marriott Marquis in Manhattan. Meeting the needs of the enterprise data center community of end-users and operators, the New York event will place emphasis on the increasingly complex and heterogeneous mission-critical data center environment.

The San Francisco Marriott Marquis will play host to DCD’s internet-themed event, from July 30–31, 2015. The two-day conference will cater to the internet data center community of end-users and operators tracking the retail, wholesale and hyper scale continuum.

Services will be the main theme for DCD’s third and final US-based event next year, taking place Oct. 27–28, 2015, at the Chicago Hilton. The conference will focus on meeting the needs of the growing data center service provider community and how they provision next-generation services, from cloud to everything as a service.

2015 will be a competitive year for DatacenterDynamics vs. 451 Group/Uptime Institute vs. DatacenterKnowledge/DatacenterWorld vs. Gartner vs. 7x24 Exchange. 

For 2015 I’ll be at 7x24 Exchange and DatacenterDynamics.  I will not be at 451 Group/Uptime Institute given I am blacklisted from attending. 

Some media companies I have never talked to their executives or staff.  I regularly chat with 7x24 Exchange and DatacenterDynamics staff.  I guess that is part of the reason I attend their events is I feel like they listen to attendees and are open to change.

When will one of the top Data Center programs collapse? Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook have the largest data center footprints with IT gear than anyone else in the industry.  Their programs are relatively young.  Google started 15 years ago.  Microsoft got going big 10 years ago.  Amazon launched AWS 8 years ago.  And Facebook followed after.

Throughout the history of technology developments a company collapses in the face of competition.  Each of these companies have different business models, but the data center programs are critical for the operation of these companies.  It is so important that billions of dollars are spent and there are thousands of people dedicated to run things.

It is an interesting thought exercise to ask which one of these data center programs could collapse and why.

Part of what inspired this post is this video on Richard Feynman “The World from another point of view.”  Asking questions that give you a different viewpoint can show you things that you hadn’t thought of, and then ask more questions.

Of these four - Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook - how would split up the probability of a collapse of their data center programs and what would the recovery look like?  

Could a design decision be made that causes a cascading failure? Unthinkable.  And because it is unthinkable it might happen as no one thought how to mitigate the event.

GreenM3 turned off Advertising

I have had a variety of people request to place ads on this site, taking no one up on their offer.  I choose early on to embed Google ads to see how it worked, how much money would come in, and to see what ads would show up.  

I don’t write on this blog to make money, so I decided to turn off Google banner ads and eliminate the ad placement.

There is a gaping hole where the banner ads were.  That is not a bug.  Ad banners are gone.  and now I can say I make $0 money from this blog. 

#1 google search "microsoft data center executives" greenm3 post

I did the thing you are not supposed to do posting on Friday, Oct 24 2014 at 5:07p on 10 years of Microsoft data center executives.  Friday is a slow media day and posting after 5p on a Friday is something you don’t want to do to spread news, but rules are being broken all over in media.

I was curious to see how well the post distributed.  After a day it popped into the top 10 google search results for “microsoft data center executives"

Curious today I checked and my post made it to #1.

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