Author: Michael Colletti

  • Independent Consulting: An Alternative to Employment

    I started working for myself due to a challenging boss. I had never experienced that level of upset in a working situation. I was convinced it was because I was powerless as an employee and vowed to achieve my sovereignty through this experience. It wasn’t personal, that’s how any employee would be treated in a…

  • New Beginnings and DevOps

    ‘Out at Sea’ (and back) I have to credit my friends in DevOps for totally changing my life, specifically John Willis. I’m deeply grateful. He encouraged, mentored and hipped me to DevOps and all the super-fly people in it (to numerous to mention here). When I did the music wayback for his Cloud Cafe’ podcast,…

  • Toward an Appreciation Of Generalism

    It took over twenty nine years to become the generalist I am today. One of the best parts of independent consulting is that learning new things is baked into everyday reality. Every day, every challenging issue, brings with it an opportunity to learn new things. This crazy circuitous path has traversed system support (mainframe ops,…