Compound Thinking

The Practice of System and Network Administration

TPoSaNA is great!

If you manage computer systems, or the people who manage the people who manage computer systems, you should buy and read this book!

Oh, the full title is The Practice of System and network Administration, and it is highly technical without ever delving into the specifics any specific vendor or technological solution. A lot of things in this book will feel intuitively obvious to the experienced system administrator, but I know I couldn’t have articulated them all very easily without reading the book.

Not only that, the book is well written, and includes enough interesting stories of real life system administration to assure that you will probably laugh out loud at least a couple of times when reading it.

If you manage a large number of systems, or critical servers, this book has information that will make your life better. Buy it, read it, be more successful at work, and have more fun. You’ll learn ways to set up your network so you don’t have to worry about it while you are on vacation — and you’ll learn ways to have more fun at work. Heck, there’s even a chapter called “Being Happy.”