Telecommedy

by Scott Wilkinson

In the late 1990s, the telecommunications industry went briefly mad and a lot of very smart people made and then lost a lot of money doing some not very smart things. Telecommedy is a memoir / steamy tell-all / advice column / cathartic expression detailing one person's experience moving through those times, interspersed with slightly educational interludes that justify the book's existence in more prominent and discerning libraries.From the "The material in this book comes from two primary sources. The first source is a lecture that I give semi-regularly to graduate students at Georgia Tech who are about to enter the world of gainful employment. When asked to give my first lecture in the series, I did not realize that I was supposed to be speaking about technology and instead pulled together a series of humorous stories about my career scattered with platitudes about lessons learned. The class seemed to like it and they keep asking me back. The second source is a blog that I started, worked on furiously, and ultimately abandoned during the telecomm boom that was entitled “Telecommedy” (hence the book title). The blog was my attempt at turning serious telecomm topics into more entertaining articles, with varying success and little fanfare. Those blog posts were the starting point for the little technology interludes in-between chapters that try to set the stage and perhaps educate just a little, tiny, bit about what all this telecomm hoopla is about."

300 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 17, 2018