I really couldn’t come up with any brilliant, witty, or insightful blog post today, so I want to take the time to address an issue that’s been on my mind since I can remember having a conscious thought.  I’m a fool.

When Abraham Lincoln stated “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt,” he was referring to me.  In fact, given that I have a magnet with that quote on my refrigerator, I may even consider it to be a personal ethos; one that I read every morning right before preparing my breakfast.

If you’re wondering why I’m so straight forward in advertising my character flaw, I’ll tell you.  Transparency.  I tend to not keep my opinions, thoughts or ideas hidden.  In fact, my wife, who is quite the accomplished behavioural therapist, could not have picked a more “open book” of a person to marry and doesn’t have to use any of her formal training to know what’s going on in my head (unfortunately, she often knows more than me anyway).  Professionally, this also means my co-workers and colleagues pretty much know my position on most topics and, lucky for them, will always have new material for making jokes at my expense.

I also have another reason for dedicating an entire blog post to my own personal foolishness.  It’s to let everyone know if you see that if I’ve done something foolish, then chances are I’m probably aware and yes, I also probably regret it.  Unfortunately, with today’s technology caching (thanks to Google), there’s very little chance of erasing any idiotic mistake made in the cyber world.  Does this tarnish some of my professional credibility?  Probably.  Do I care?  Absolutely.  But the truth of the matter is that, like ITIL (now I can feel justified in adding this post to my ITIL and Me blog), I probably have a certain lacking of common sense mixed with a good idea or two.

So there you have it – these blog posts are being written by an IT loving fool of a person.  Should I be ashamed?  Yes.  Am I?  Not really.  You see, there’s a certain blind faith I enjoy with being a fool.  Even though ITIL has deficiencies, some of which can be serious, it does have an idealistic, almost grandiose, purpose of helping people to provide the best IT services available.  Besides, need I remind you that even Obi Wan referred to his journey as a “damn foolish idealistic crusade?”  Please ignore the fact that he got sliced in half by Darth Vader and vanished into thin air.  I’m not expecting my ITIL crusade to follow the same fate…I hope.

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Started working in IT in 1999 as a support desk analyst as a way to help pay for food during college. Studied Electrical Engineering for two years before realizing biochemistry was more fun than differential equations, and so ultimately graduated with a Biology degree in 2006. Having (reluctantly) failed at getting accepted into dental school, embraced working in IT and has gone broke becoming an ITIL Expert. Likes to jog, sing camp songs, quote Mel Brooks movie lines and make dumb jokes and loves working for an Israeli tech company where December 25th is a regular work day.