When you set goals and you get after them, they can change your life. This summer, I set two short-term goals: - Learn the basics of coding in Python. - Lose 30 pounds. Since May 23, I’m already down 13 pounds. That’s nearly halfway to my fitness goal, in just 36 days. #goals

🎇Happy 4th of July, from the Jersey Shore ☀️

Today I read another few pages of my new Python book, installed Microsoft Visual Studio and it’s python extension. Please clap.

Anyone here ruck? Trying to pick a weight for a vest. Is 50 pounds too heavy?

Chi-Town

Dear Chicago, I’m leaving today and didn’t get to try your pizza or Italian beef sandwich. Guess I need to come back 👍🏻

You know you’re in a fun city when they have weed trash cans at the airport. How much weed used to get thrown in the trash for them to need dedicated weed trash cans? 😂

Epic 🚀

How do you identify a data center switch and what it’s good for? What’s your go-to indicator of its capabilities? Reply if your answer isn’t listed!

I could talk to TracketPacer endlessly about rocket networking 🚀

I’ve led data center migrations, survived product launches, and been in the room for outages that made headlines. None of that prepared me for working upside down in a cabinet the size of a coffin, blindfolded by pipes, praying I don’t drop the only wrench that fits. IYKYK.

Pretty wild Saturday night uploading transcripts to old The Art of Network Engineering podcast episodes. #rager

When I started creating content, I didn’t realize I was building more than blogs, videos, and podcasts; I was building access to conversations I never would’ve been invited into. Access to rooms where decisions were being made. Access to people I used to look up to from afar.

Each new AI‑driven outage makes one thing obvious: AI isn’t “set it and forget it.” Just like any automation, it demands human oversight, guardrails, and real checks and balances, especially when failure means taking entire systems offline. tomshardware.com/tech-industry/…

“If you don’t have experience, go make it.”

“You can’t get to expert until you begin, so just start.”

To succeed in network engineering in 2025 and beyond, go broad.

Network engineers' value isn't about knowing every CLI command anymore. It's about understanding the *goal* and figuring out how to get there, no matter the vendor. Some might not like hearing that. #NetworkEngineering #Automation