2024 was a year of being busy. You probably noticed as a loyal reader because my output on this blog fell off quite a bit. I wanted to get back on track per my New Year’s Day post. How did I do? Sixteen posts for the whole year. Barely more than one a month.

That doesn’t mean I wasn’t busy. I have been working hard to bring great Tech Field Day events to the community. I’ve become more active on BlueSky as the community shifts there due to the craziness happening on Twitter/X. I have been getting more and more briefings on technology, which I’ve been writing up on LinkedIn. And of course I’ve been active on the Gestalt IT Rundown and the Tech Field Day Podcast

I also ran almost every day in 2024. I mentioned on Facebook that “consistency beats quantity”, which was a phrase that encouraged me to try and run at least one mile a day in 2024. That ended up being 901 miles of running for the year, with November and December having a LOT or running. I plan on keeping that going in 2025, where I’m aiming for 1,000 miles. It will be a challenge but I’ve never been one to shy away from that.

Coming Up

Where does that leave writing here? I still try to get that done when I can. Usually when I have something interesting to say. In years past I’ve tried to post every week or even two weeks. I’ve written about tech and leadership and even writing itself. I’ve tried to cover the gamut of things that are important to me.

2025 is the fifteenth anniversary year of me starting to write. The industry has changed quite a bit. Networking is focused more on moving data to the cloud or getting inputs to AI algorithms. Wi-Fi is getting faster and opening new spectrums. Security is crazy and provides the kinds of headlines that could keep one busy with breach analysis every week for the rest of my career.

However, I don’t want to just hit the highlights. I want to bring you analysis and insightful things to make you wonder about where the tech is going. I want to highlight important things that you need to be aware of. In short, I want to bring thought behind the words. Ironically it has become extremely easy to write in 2025 with the advent of AI text generation. Every writing tool integrates some form of text creation, whether it’s generating paragraphs from prompts or just analyzing your writing to figure out how to better say something. That means that there are more words out there saying a lot less than they ever have before.

I want to make sure I’m bringing you the kind of content that you want to read instead of just posting because I need to create something. That’s how I felt for a very long time. This year caused me to post less but it made me think more about what I wanted to say. I don’t think I’m going to get back to posting weekly but I do promise to get more out there for you as long as you keep reading it.