I am now a Red Hat Certified Engineer.

This is one of the most difficult and intensive certifications in IT to earn, and along with the CCIE arguably the most respected.

I’m tired of studying but very happy and proud.

This is a good take on something I’d thought about in other terms.

Many tech and media-savvy people live in a bubble. They believe implicitly that their experiences encompass the majority of humans, but in reality it’s a small minority.

Here’s an example.

The last IT department I worked in had about two dozen people in it. I use “IT department” because that is usually full of pretty tech-savvy people, and this one was no exception.

However even in this bastion of tech-savvy people, only a few of them had a Facebook account. I don’t think anyone had a Twitter account. Most of them — save one app addict — didn’t really use any apps on their phones that I ever saw (and I spent a lot of time with many of them).

Obviously many people use Facebook and Twitter, of course. But not in the ways and not in the contexts that I suspect many of the media elite use it, and are expecting others to use those platforms.

They are all looking for views and customers in a place that’s easy to determine if you’ve found them, meanwhile ignoring the 90% of your possible customer base — like me and all of my co-workers — who aren’t into that sort of brain hijacking.