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		<title>Crossing the chasm</title>
		<link>https://mountvirtual.com/2023/11/28/crossing-the-chasm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today marks another big day in my career, it&#8217;s the day I arrive in my remote office for my first day at Broadcom. But so much has happened since my literal Day 1 at AWS back in March 2021. On that day. I knew my life was getting ready to change &#8211; I was taking &#8230; <a href="https://mountvirtual.com/2023/11/28/crossing-the-chasm/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Crossing the chasm</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Journey to Day 1 &#8211; A Lesson in Belief</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 01:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I received an email a couple weeks ago from the onboarding group called J2D1, which stands for &#8220;Journey to Day 1&#8221;. That&#8217;s the recruiting team that facilitates the onboarding process for all incoming new hires. That team is at Amazon, and Day 1 is a tip to Jeff Bezos&#8217; conviction and principle that everyday is &#8230; <a href="https://mountvirtual.com/2021/03/15/journey-to-day-1-a-lesson-in-belief/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Journey to Day 1 &#8211; A Lesson in&#160;Belief</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deep Work Habits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At any given time, I have a list of ambitious goals I’m looking to accomplish.  As a knowledge worker in IT, most of my professional goals are related to new skill attainment or deeper understanding of a specific technology. Up until recently, I took a haphazard approach to fitting in time to work toward these &#8230; <a href="https://mountvirtual.com/2020/11/30/deep-work-habits/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Deep Work Habits</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Going Deep with Project-Based Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2020 13:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Project-based learning is a concept for learning that has widely been used in the educational system.  My daughter recently completed a project for her class in which she put together a stop-motion video of her dolls going through a time machine to explore the history of her home state.  This kind of learning greatly engages &#8230; <a href="https://mountvirtual.com/2020/10/31/going-deep-with-project-based-learning/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Going Deep with Project-Based&#160;Learning</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Virtualization Professional&#8217;s Career Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I had the distinct honor of sitting down with Kit Colbert to discuss the virtualization career journey.&#160; Kit is a legend in the technology community.&#160; Having helped create vMotion and Storage vMotion, contributed to other core features in vSphere, and been involved in several major shifts at VMware (vRealize, EUC, cloud &#8230; <a href="https://mountvirtual.com/2020/10/29/virtualization-professionals-career-guide/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Virtualization Professional&#8217;s Career&#160;Guide</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Personal Growth through Certifications</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my previous posts, I covered the two primary benefits of certification pursuit and attainment:  having a structured learning path, and new opportunities.  Today, I’ll cover the more abstract benefits around personal growth. Goal setting and focus Working toward a certification requires the simple act of goal setting.  And working toward any significant goal brings &#8230; <a href="https://mountvirtual.com/2020/10/25/personal-growth-through-certifications/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Personal Growth through&#160;Certifications</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Opening Doors through Certifications</title>
		<link>https://mountvirtual.com/2020/10/18/opening-doors-through-certifications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2020 14:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I started a topic on the value of certifications, highlighting one of the strongest benefits of certification: structured learning path.  In this post, I’ll look at how the pursuit and attainment of certifications can open doors to new opportunities. It’s widely believed that having a certification on one’s resume can get &#8230; <a href="https://mountvirtual.com/2020/10/18/opening-doors-through-certifications/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Opening Doors through&#160;Certifications</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Value of Tech Certifications</title>
		<link>https://mountvirtual.com/2020/10/11/value-of-tech-certifications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The value of tech certifications has been the topic of debate throughout my years in IT.  Many believe in the value and validation attained by them, while others view them as a cheap display of supposed knowledge, with no real skill or experience to back it up.  Some even go as far as viewing certifications &#8230; <a href="https://mountvirtual.com/2020/10/11/value-of-tech-certifications/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Value of Tech&#160;Certifications</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Start</title>
		<link>https://mountvirtual.com/2020/01/01/new-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 22:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[January 1, 2020.  First day of the new year and the new decade!  Proverbial resolutions are made… with far too many people responding pessimistically to the staying power of these resolutions.  It&#8217;s true, gyms are often packed in the first couple weeks of the year, and that by February, the crowds thin out leaving mostly &#8230; <a href="https://mountvirtual.com/2020/01/01/new-start/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">New Start</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pivot Point</title>
		<link>https://mountvirtual.com/2019/08/21/pivot-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Several (more like eight) years ago, I started a blog.  I was encouraged by other members of the vCommunity to jump in and start sharing.  There was much encouragement along the way, and I loved the idea of contributing, even if I thought I was an inexperienced voice with little to add.  But as with &#8230; <a href="https://mountvirtual.com/2019/08/21/pivot-point/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Pivot Point</span></a>]]></description>
		
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