The Search for Intelligent Life

Recently, the company that I work for decided to overhaul my team's BI blog, looking for something a bit more polished. It's true that our posts were raw and often had grammatical errors. It's also true that many of the posts had a nominal number of hits, probably amounting to the number of BI developers in the Philly region or, maybe, the number of twitter followers. But these posts did take a lot of time and thought and, for me, more importantly, it was a place to document those tidbits that I can never seem to remember and always seem to need to look up.

An additional twist is that my employer is really looking for posts that are less technically oriented. They want something that an IT manager might read on a long break in the men's room. Perhaps, something that might make the reader think, "maybe if I turn my Oracle database into a data lake, I'll make that next big promotion." And, while I will help middle management get a bit more middler, my friends and colleagues and I would still like to chronicle our technical wanderings.

This blog will be dedicated to that end.

We come in peace,
Mark Wojciechowicz