{"id":15372,"date":"2011-11-18T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15372"},"modified":"2011-11-18T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T05:59:10","slug":"unchained-from-a-techtards-prospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15372\/unchained-from-a-techtards-prospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained From A TechTard’s Prospective"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d be criminally remiss if I didn’t first comment on how massively cool it was spending an entire day and night with the level of expertise, knowledge, experience, and plain old results present at this Unchained event. This was not a room for posers — possibly the understatement of 2011.<\/em> I was in nosebleed country all day. I felt pretty much all day like I was merely an insignificant fly in the room with these guys. <\/p>\n

Got nothin’ to say about all the GeekSpeak that went on. It was when each speaker began to elucidate their strategy(s) that I perked up and began takin’ notes. I did notice one thing that made it more than just a great day of learning. Something that had me feelin’ all warm ‘n fuzzy.<\/p>\n

Nothing’s changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Scott Schang, and later on Mark Madsen with Tony Sena, pounded home the point that measuring results is mission critical<\/strong> — period, shut up. More on that principle later.<\/p>\n

\u2022 All of ’em, directly or indirectly paid homage, due tribute, to the end game<\/em> of all that was taught: Gettin’ belly to belly with those seeking the aforementioned expertise, knowledge, experience, and yes, that pesky concept — results. Any outcome short of that is akin to a coffeehouse conversation with two broke ‘artists’. In other words, you’ll never get that time back, sans results.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mark Madsen literally humbled me with his prodigious work ethic — which when combined with his ‘do it now’ attitude reminded me so much of Dad when he was making plans for his company, back in the day. For reasons I choose not to divulge here, I’ve been unable to follow up with Mark, but that’s passed, and he’ll be hearing from me. Remember his name, cuz he’s the real deal. I don’t often get impressed, mostly cuz I’m a cynical OldSchool bastard<\/em>. But believe me about Mark. It’s a shame he doesn’t write more here.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ever been to a concert where the first several acts knocked your socks off? One time in the 70s I went to a concert where the freakin’ opening act was Linda Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d be criminally remiss if I didn’t first comment on how massively cool it was spending an entire day and night with the level of expertise, knowledge, experience, and plain old results present at this Unchained event. This was not a room for posers — possibly the understatement of 2011. 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