Network Native

Its my intuition to assume that building a PC benefits anyone who seeks to begin, sustain or improve a career in the information technology space. However, over the course of my career I've interacted with business roles adjacent to IT that don't see the value in PC building. I can still recall an interview I'd participated in years ago where I'd made some reference to my PC build at the time. My video card stopped working and I'd done some work to isolate that card as the problem and get the component replaced. Being naïve as I was back then, I had no clue that the person interviewing me didn't have a technical skill set. This is despite the product of the company being extremely technical. My story about discovering the problematic GPU carried no sway with the interviewer. My interviewer probably didn't know what a GPU was (This was several years before the current AI hype cycle). Years later I still find myself reflecting on that experience. In this blog