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April 24, 2025April 28, 2025

Netstalgia: Y2K

Gather around while I tell the story of the great Y2K bug, how close we came to societal collapse until we were saved by Deloitte consultants who selflessly worked night and day to stave off this peril! In fact, the Y2K episode should serve as a reminder of the peril of “viral” thinking, panic and […]

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September 15, 2020September 21, 2020

Y2K

In 1998 I left my job as a computer “consultant” to pursue a master’s degree in Telecommunications Management.  I was stuck in my job, tired of troubleshooting people’s email clients and installing Word on their desktops, and was looking for a way to make a leap into bigger and better things.  That did happen–although not […]

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