Many many years ago, at a company which now only lives on in name, I enjoyed life working under TK as a Unix Admin. Sitting side by side at terminals, we instinctively gained shared knowledge of each other’s eccentric idiosyncrasies. Have you ever sat at the big hash prompt contemplating the next move and discovered an uncanny desire to type something, anything? Obviously, logged in as root while typing random commands is a “bad thing”. Most people would say, “step away from keyboard”. Instead, I had this horrible addiction to continuously type ls. Over and over again. When working with TK, I noticed he suffered from the same affliction, but his vice of choice was to type sync. Compared to my ls, at least in his case, running sync had a general positive outcome. Wouldn’t you know it, today, I too am afflicted with the sync-itis.

The term sync means so much more than that of `man sync`. Synchrony, synchronicity, synchronize, synchronization – actions, events, people, thoughts happening at the same time or in harmony. Running an IT organization is so much more about in harmony with the organization than looking out for oneself or ones own department. The customer is your company. Align your gears with company cogs and surprisingly, good things happen.

In setting the stage for the sync blog, I leave you with this quote…

I am the wisest man alive; for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. – Socrates