Every blog starts with a post nobody reads. This is that post. Consider it the sound check.
I’m Professor Lamb. I teach information technology — networking, data structures and algorithms, artificial intelligence — at a community college. IT is my second career. The first one gave me a doctorate and a set of instincts about how knowledge gets made, which turns out to be either an enormous advantage or an expensive detour, depending on the week.
What the subtitle means
Writings. Writing is how I think, and thinking in public is the whole point of a blog. Expect drafts, revisions, and the occasional retraction.
Regrets. Not wallowing — accounting. Career changes have real costs, and pretending otherwise is bad advice dressed up as encouragement. I want to be honest about the ledger.
Re-skillings. Plural on purpose. I re-skilled once already, deliberately and slowly. Now the ground is moving under everyone at once — me, my students, and the field I teach.
What you’ll find here
Notes from the classroom about what actually helps people learn hard technical material. Reports from the field on where AI genuinely changes the work and where it’s mostly vendor noise. Career-change writing for people considering the leap, already mid-leap, or quietly regretting one. And the occasional post about how I’m using these tools myself — including the ones that helped build this site.
Bias toward evidence over forecasts. Bias toward specifics over vibes. If I make a claim, I’ll try to tell you how I know.
That’s the sound check. More soon.