A brilliant posting here from Jonathan Lewis on the subject of Experts. He in turn is quoting Chen Shapira: “DBAs are under a lot of pressure not to be experts.”. Read the sentence again, as it took me a minute to figure out. He’s writing in the context of an Oracle DBA but I think it’s equally applicable to those working with an looking after installations of OBIEE et al.

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I found this post very interesting: Paul Graham : Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule (originally found here) It was one of those mini-revelations when I found something that greatly resonated and explained an inexplicable frustration I find in the workplace sometimes. I wonder how applicable it can be to a large corporation though, rather than a start-up where it’s given that people are allowed to be bolshy with their meetings? ;-)

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