I ran my first marathon October 24th, 2021; I plan on running my first ultra-marathon September 2nd, 2022; my wife and I welcomed our first child the same week I started my MBA; I routinely jumped out airplanes as a US Army Infantryman. I would gladly relive all those things before I would voluntarily write this blog. As an introvert, putting myself in a position to act as an authority in my fields of reliability and data production makes me uncomfortable.
This post is not a SQL or Power BI how-to; it is a post on finding the motivation to start something intentionally that puts you out of your comfort zone. For me, that was mechanical engineering early on followed by data science and computer coding. To preface, I failed a math class in high school (Plane Geometry, which I still find difficult today), scored a 478/800 on my SAT's in math, and crushed my first semester of college with a 1.8 GPA.
I learned motivation the hard way logging through land navigation courses and 12 mile ruck marches in my 5 year career in the Army by realizing that regardless f the path chosen, there will likely be pain in either direction. The critical difference is the end result: the pain can either be caused by failure to prepare, or you can choose to pay the bill up-front by foregoing the easy route.
I mention my theory of motivation because it is critical to decision makers at all levels even remotely connected to big data. The Law of Conservation of Momentum applies to history as much as it applies to classical physics. Moore's Law, more an observation, states that the number of transistors doubles every 2 years on a dense Integrated Circuit. What this means to the non-nerd is that IoT, IIoT, and big data will only become more entrenched in business and society.
We as current decision makers have two paths before with two predictable outcomes: we can experience the pain of regret, failing to prepare, learn, and strategize, or, my preferred strategy, we can suffer the awkward learning to walk phase of a SQL basics course or website design and blogging. Wherever we are in our various life paths, that position is the sum total of how we picked our pain, pain of regret or pain of preparation.
As always, feel free reach out with any questions and please share if you got something from the post.
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