Daily Dose of Curious

Knowing that it works and knowing why it works are different jobs. Only one of them travels.

04 SEP 2026LEARNING

A configuration that works is a result. An explanation of why it works is a tool, and you can carry it to the next site, the next protocol and the next machine you have never seen. The whole reason I went after the CCNA was to stop collecting results.

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Working Towards My CCNAField note

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shares a tagThe best engineers I have worked with ask more than they answer. That is not a gap in what they know.
shares a tagCompetence is a few thousand small mistakes, arranged in a useful order.
shares a tagExplaining it to somebody else is the exam. Everything before that was revision.
shares a tagA path does not have to be straight to be going somewhere.

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