Acknowledgments

Although this book is about learning, I am the one who has learned so much, starting with the folks at Project Software & Development, Inc., who took a chance on an industrial engineer whose only work experience was with companies that made grinding wheels and bubble gum. My then manager said he could train an engineer to program but he could not train a programmer to be an engineer.
Digital Equipment Corporation got me into data warehousing, with a 150-Gb warehouse, one of the largest nongovernment data warehouses in the world at the time—now it would fit on my smartphone. The consulting I have done since then, including with CONNECT: The Knowledge Network (Maureen Clarry), PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting and through Athena IT ...

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