• As database administrators and developers, it's our job to keep the innovation bandwagon headed in the right direction. We should not simply jump on the back of the bandwagon. There are a lot of smart professionals who allowed themselves to get mixed up in bad stuff because they passively accepted the organizational status quo of hoarding and abusing data. Whistleblowers in government is great, but we also need whistleblowers in corporate and startup IT shops as well.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho