My performance at the Professional IT Community Conference went all right. Consistent light laughter, some long belly laughs and several bits of applause. Sheeri Cabral and Tom Limoncelli really hit it out of the park on Slideshow Karaoke (best practices). Thanks to The League of Professional System Administrators for inviting me, and especially to Matt Simmons and William Bilancio for organizing my attendance and appearance.

A few things I recommended at PICC:

• Better by Atul Gawande; How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (attacker's POV) and Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini (defender's POV); The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin; Bossypants by Tina Fey; should have also mentioned Ellen Ullman's The Bug;
• contributing documentation/bug triage/testing/packaging to open source projects you already use (example: my novice's guide to Telepathy);
• the master's in tech management from Columbia;
• jobs at PCF, Linaro, Siemens, the Tor Project, and Wikimedia Foundation (also want to plug Socialbomb);
• lightweight collaboration tools Etherpad and pastebin (or tacky if you want to host it yourself)
• tips on persuading executives to invest in your tech projects;
• lists of types of advertising/persuasion tactics;
• the Open Source Bridge conference in Portland in late June;
• ZaReason for less sweatshoppy Linux hardware sans Windows tax;
• leading courses and workshops at General Assembly and CodeLesson.com