Happy Monday and Happy National Clean off Your Desk Day! Today is the perfect opportunity to begin the new year with a clean and organized workspace. Happy cleaning!
In This Issue: New Habits for 2023 | Cisco 8861 Five line Color Display IP Phone | Best Practices for Cable Management in Data Centers | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – New Habits for 2023
Happy Monday!
I hope you are having a happy 2023! Still feels weird that we’re well into the 2020s. It was awesome to read about all of the organizations that CK was able to support over the Christmas break.
I took a good amount of time off to spend time with family and visited Pigeon Forge over the break and I was able to plan out some habits for 2023. I realized over the years that resolutions weren’t for me. I usually ended up falling way short of any type of resolution. Instead, I’m opting for attempting to do 4 or 5 things consistently over the year and see where that ends up. I have a habit tracker app on my phone to keep things organized that will allow me to view my progress over time.
While it would be wonderful that I accomplish every habit every day, I’m targeting a 70% success rate on hitting those habits. I know life will happen and I’ll have to postpone a habit, but the idea is not to abandon the habit completely like all of those poor abandoned resolutions that I’ve had in the past. I’ve been reading a book recommendation from our president, Chris McCoy, called “Atomic Habits” by James Clear – and it has helped me with organizing and executing these habits. Wish me luck!
I hope that 2023 brings you success and prosperity! Do you make new years resolutions? Or yearly goals? Would love to hear from you!
Cris
Product Spotlights & Updates
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Learning Center Article – Best Practices for Cable Management in Data Centers
Every network administrator in the world has a horror story about cable management. In data centers, those horror stories grow into genuine nightmares. If enough people work on a system for a long enough period of time, the cables will eventually turn into some type of Ethernet vine monster. Only strict adherence to cable management practices can prevent this disaster. The following best practices assume you already know some of the basics. Instead, they’re aimed to help you avoid subtler missteps that occur frequently in modern data centers.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial intelligence chatbot now have a new tool of their own. Edward Tian, a 22-year-old senior at Princeton University, has built an app to detect whether text is written by ChatGPT, the viral chatbot that’s sparked fears over its potential for unethical uses in academia.
- Airlines are raising the bar for travel perks, like lounge access and elite status. During the Covid pandemic, airlines allowed sidelined travelers to extend frequent flyer status. Carriers are also rethinking cabin configurations to fit more business-class or premium economy seats.
- McDonald’s is planning job cuts and a reorganization as the company refocuses its priorities to accelerate restaurant expansion. The company will be deprioritizing and halting certain initiatives.
- Pickup trucks again led America’s top-selling vehicles last year, but Tesla broke into the top 10 for the first time as a Covid-era shakeup among other popular models continues. Data and analytics firm Motor Intelligence reports the electric Tesla Model Y crossover was the sixth bestselling vehicle in the country in 2022, beating out the GMC Sierra pickup, Honda CR-V crossover, and other longstanding top sellers.