Un-SQL Friday: Don't Be a Port in the Storm

re: Un-SQL Friday: Don't Be a Port in the Storm

Jen McCown — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:06:22 GMT

Wow, man. That post is all I could ask for and more. Excellent advice, EXCELLENT perspective. Also, I'm using this in every future Un-SQL, ever:

"Un-SQL Friday is like T-SQL Tuesday, only it's not about SQL topics, ..... So in short, they've created a chaotic, disorganized, and thoroughly downmarket twist on what I've done. How cool is that?"

Thanks, sincerely.

(Also: Now I'm forever stuck with the image of you psyching yourself up for sessions and precons, "BE the storm, c'mon Adam, BE the STORM....")

re: Un-SQL Friday: Don't Be a Port in the Storm

Adam Machanic — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:26:31 GMT

Jen,

Thanks for the kind words :-)

And now you know why just before you went into your session last week at PASS, I told you to "rock it like a hurricane." I was trying to give you a piece of The Storm!

re: Un-SQL Friday: Don't Be a Port in the Storm

mjswart — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:41:04 GMT

Inspiring Adam.

re: Un-SQL Friday: Don't Be a Port in the Storm

Jack Corbett — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:20:08 GMT

Very good post. I wouldn't say I'm comfortable, but I'm still deciding what I want my brand to be.

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Andy Warren — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:36:46 GMT

Nice post, and I agree that not everyone wants or needs to be 'well-known'. I think the part that gets lost in the noise is that we all have a brand, even if it's only within our company. For most of us our brands are decided by our actions and not a deliberate marketing effort. Nothing wrong with either approach.

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retracement — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:55:09 GMT

..and Andy, just building on what you have said, just to add a favorite saying that I picked up from the author Steven Chandler many years ago - "It's not who you know.....It's what YOU DO with who you know". Its a powerful concept and I never tire of repeating it :)

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Valentino Vranken — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:43:13 GMT

Interesting post Adam! I especially like the part about stepping out of the comfort zone. People do indeed enjoy being comfortable. And I think this is even more so for people in our sector, IT people do have more autistic traits than in any other sector. I'm not saying we're all autists though. But it does mean that for us it takes extra effort to step out of that zone. Generally speaking of course.

@Andy: would that be "brandwidth"? The more people you reach, the higher your brandwidth?