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Weekly Newsletter - 10/11/2021

Hello everyone! Last week was a rough one for me. As you might have read in last week’s newsletter, I broken my pinky toe while out on a trail run. While I knew it was broken …

Ned Bellavance 5 min read
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Weekly Newsletter - 10/4/2021

Hello everyone! You just never know the direction a day will head when you wake up. Sure, you can make plans and hope for the best. But I think we all know what reality thinks of …

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Weekly Newsletter - 9/27/2021

Hello everyone! Last week I spent some time in Draper, UT - about 30 minutes outside of Salt Lake City - at the new Pluralsight HQ building for the annual Author Summit. The summit …

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Weekly Newsletter for 9/20/2021

Hello everyone! Last week I spent five days in Nashville, taking in the sights, listening to live music, and probably drinking a bit too much. This was the first time my wife and I …

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Failing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam

As you may have gathered from the title, I did NOT pass the CKA exam. The title is not some clickbait where I turn things around and explain how I passed the exam by doing X, Y, …

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2020 Year in Review

2020 was… a year. Or more like a decade packed into a single year. Looking back at everything that happened, it seems both too much and not enough. Conferences were …

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Ned in the Cloud - First Year Review

One year ago I decided to quit my consulting job at a respectable company and go rogue as the Founder and sole employee of Ned in the Cloud LLC. I thought that now might be a good …

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A Vision and Strategy for 2020

Although I don’t generally subscribe to New Year’s resolutions, I do like to review my professional goals on a regular basis and make sure they align with my overall …

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2019 Year in Review

In December of 2018, I wrote a post about my goals for 2019. I’d like to reflect on those goals and take a look at what I actually accomplished in 2019. My goals for 2020 …

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