Year: 2015

  • Advice for being an industry analyst

    Occasionally, my fellow analysts ask me for advice on being an analyst. Here’s an edited up version of one of my recent emails: Learn how to listen to yourself, focus You have to learn to trust your intuition about what you focus on, your own style and voice, and, most importantly for monetization, how you…

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  • My old cache of D&D books. And there

    Coté Memo #061: On the tedious need to have an opinion

    Tech & Work World Having an opinion, or not In the types of jobs I’ve found myself in over recent years – analyst, strategist, “content producer” in the form of podcasts and blogs – you have to generate a lot of opinions. The best actually seem to really care about the things they have opinions…

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  • Coté Memo #060: Mark all cookies as read

    Follow-up The Docker piece I mentioned last time is up. Check out the summary on my blog, and 451 clients can read it behind our paywall. Because Docker links always come in pairs, here’s the recording of the closing panel at DockerConEU, where I was one of the panelists. Software Defined Talk listeners will notice…

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