{"id":10382,"date":"2014-03-07T17:29:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3003151"},"modified":"2014-03-07T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:29:20","slug":"cloud-pulse-wherever-you-go-there-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-pulse-wherever-you-go-there-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Pulse: Wherever You Go, There You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are people who take life slowly, accept it on its terms, meditate, read about meditation, and internalize books like &#8220;Wherever You Go, There You Are,&#8221; a bestseller by a guy with a hyphenated name. I&#8217;m more of a Malcolm Gladwell fan &#8212; Outliers or his newest book \u201cDavid and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.&#8221;<br \/>\nMaybe I&#8217;m just naturally the type that will spend 10,000 hours practicing, sharpening, mastering, thinking about the advantages a startup has over leaders in the market, getting back in the game. I&#8217;ve been in enterprise software for 30 years and the cloud since its formation. A long time ago, I faced the fact that I don&#8217;t have the basketball gene (although I do coach several boys&#8217; sports teams) and I&#8217;m pretty sure meditating will not increase my productivity as a start-up CEO. I could be wrong on the meditating part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3003151\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are people who take life slowly, accept it on its terms, meditate, read about meditation, and internalize books like &#8220;Wherever You Go, There You Are,&#8221; a bestseller by a guy with a hyphenated name. I&#8217;m more of a Malcolm Gladwell fan &#8212; Outliers or his newest book &ldquo;David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.&#8221;<br \/>\nMaybe I&#8217;m just naturally the type that will spend 10,000 hours practicing, sharpening, mastering, thinking about the advantages a startup has over leaders in the market, getting back in the game. I&#8217;ve been in enterprise software for 30 years and the cloud since its formation. A long time ago, I faced the fact that I don&#8217;t have the basketball gene (although I do coach several boys&#8217; sports teams) and I&#8217;m pretty sure meditating will not increase my productivity as a start-up CEO. I could be wrong on the meditating part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3003151\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}