29th
Deprivation: Day Six
Disrupted. That’s the prevailing theme of the day.
In my line of work, I spend quite a lot of time with clients talking about their technical issues. Sometimes, it’s just handy to have at your fingertips a good solution to show as an example. It’s usually not meant to be the answer. Just a plausible proof-of-concept to demonstrate that there’s at least one good way to address the situation.
And clients naturally expect that you have that good answer right on the tip of your tongue. All the time. And that’s not too unreasonable: my clients’ companies are paying my company real money for the courtesy of my presence on any given day. The least I can do to hold up my end of the bargain is to give everyone good value for their money.
Part of that razzmatazz involves knowing exactly where the tools of the trade can be found. Right now.
Doctors seem to have this Mary Poppins-esque bag with more space inside than volume outside. Magicians have their stuff, too. For consultants, it has a superhero utility belt feeling. Batman isn’t completely useless without the utility belt, but his options are far more limited. And when the batarang isn’t available, Batman needs to get creative speedy quick to stop the Penguin.
Today’s revelation came in the form of using the camera on my laptop—which I almost never use—in the place of my camera phone to take photos of a whiteboard diagram. Awkward, but effective.
Let’s just hope Batman doesn’t need much more than ingenuity, Swiss cheese and twine for his next surprise. Would hate to drop the laptop on someone’s head.
