Rob England

Continuing our series of articles on geeks (which began here and here) today we look further into the mind of the geek to understand what makes them tick. Every discussion of human behavior requires simplification or generalization. Stereotypes can still be useful models. One such model is the geek. Many IT people fit the model, […]

In a previous article we categorized people working in IT into two groups: those who are oriented around action (process, business, projects) and those who are oriented around things (hardware and software technology, documents, data). Geeks are the IT staffers who are more interested in technology than the business drivers to use it. For the […]

If you are a senior (read over 30) IT technical person, well versed, even expert, in your chosen products and technologies, how secure is your career? As you get older, you get slower, uglier and more expensive. As your work rate goes down and your cost goes up, you must compensate by expanding your skills […]

Hopefully most readers will agree that people working in IT can be broadly categorized into two groups: those who are oriented around action (process, business, projects) and those who are oriented around things (hardware and software technology, documents, data). The term geek is usually attached to the hardware-software group, so while it’s not universally viewed […]