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57. What year did IT paranoia set in?

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Michael (the great bearded) McClure and I had a talk of sorts on Dissecting Popular IT Nerds… We also talked about what other IT Directors actually do for fun Like Snowmobiling and freezing icicles off one’s beard, aka “beardicles” Some of the show highlights: A Gateway 286 & Network Card Why is nothing breaking Millennials want it to work easy like Siri Embrace the challenge release the stress What’s easy is hard What year did paranoia set in How to sell to upper management with only a little bit of fear. Michael McClure I have been in the IT field for 25 years and have been an IT Director for 13 of them. I am an Army Veteran, a Volunteer for Make-A-Wish Oregon, and the Captain of the Oregon Chapter of Bearded Villains (a Charity and Family-oriented International Beard Club). I have been married for 26 years and have two adult children. Oh, and I’m a huge Disney fan and occasional Pirate.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

0:12.6

And today we have Michael McClure.

0:16.2

My, McClure, am I pronouncing that correctly?

0:18.3

Am I getting this right?

0:19.3

I'm very paranoid about names.

0:20.8

You got it just fine. Okay, excellent. So, so thank you so much for being on the show,

0:26.8

where I love that you have gray in your beard, as I also do. You know, you're not one of those guys

0:34.6

that's dying the beard yet, are you? I have contemplated. Oh, no, that will never happen.

0:39.3

No, you've got to embrace the gray.

0:41.5

I mean, every one of those gray hairs stands for something.

0:45.7

Yes, exactly.

0:47.0

It stands for a knowledge, character.

0:52.3

Let's see.

0:53.3

What else can we say?

0:55.0

On battles.

0:55.6

Yeah.

0:56.2

Yeah.

0:58.5

You're just out there doing stuff.

1:01.8

Yeah, you got it.

1:03.1

Now, I like that you've got a background picture too of snow in the background.

1:08.4

And I'm sure you have, and I can say this because I have a beard, you have a beard,

1:12.8

I'm sure you have some pictures somewhere down the line in the history of the world of

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