Ten Years on the Job: Milestones

Now that school is off and running, I can return to some of the less urgent tasks—like updating my blog—that tend to go missing during crunch times. I’d like to add a few further reflections on ten years in the IT trenches, focusing today on those developments that were milestones in our school’s tech progress […]

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A Clear Mission, Revisited

If this blog were a movie, a title would appear in this frame saying “Several Months Later.” We planned to change our blog platform during spring quarter, and as end of year pressures accumulated, the move was postponed numerous times. So…I didn’t post for a long time. But all is now well and I look […]

Taking the Right Swing: A Clear Mission

Last time, I shared observations about the elements of “the right swing,” a baseball analogy that keeps me focused on process before outcome. Good process tends to yield good outcome. Let’s look at these elements in more detail, beginning with “a clear mission for the IT group.”
Many independent school technology programs have evolved rapidly into […]

New Year’s Resolution

A quotable quote from a ballplayer gave rise to one of my work-related New Year’s resolutions.
Last season, Philadelphia Phillies’ player Jimmy Rollins got a hit in 38 consecutive games, the longest hitting streak in Major League Baseball in nearly twenty years (the streak actually began at the end of the prior season).
Interviewed by ESPN’s […]