Re: Whose Workbook is Bigger?

Hey Jake,

Perhaps you should consider reevaluating your perspective on the
list. IMHO, it definitely is NOT a late-phase preparation tool. In
the early and middle phases of prep, you can learn a lot that you need
to know about the lab process itself (can you or can't you bring your
own colored pencils into the Brussels location on the second Tuesday
of odd-year Februaries?!) and there are still some intensely technical
threads that we all learn a lot from. But when it comes time to
hunker down, the list probably ought to be the last thing you're
dedicating your time to (again, just IMHO). I personally shut it off
for the month leading up to my lab date.

You might also want to reconsider what you expect from the list. Are
you contributing technical responses to technical questions yourself?
Or are you just expecting the vendors to do that for you? If the list
did anything for me at all in terms of earning digits, it's that it
gave me an opportunity to explore questions and topics that I
otherwise might not have. If I was going to answer somebody's
question in front of a global audience, I was generally speaking going
to put in my due diligence to answer the question correctly and to
capture and display all of the relevant proof and backup. Most of the
answers I myself generated, I remembered (at least into the mid-
term). That was highly beneficial come lab day. Most of the answers
I merely read, I soon forgot. 'Nuff said.

Scott

On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:34 , Jake wrote:

> Would it be too much to ask to split the opinion/OT/etc. threads off
> this list to a separate one? I'm just about done wasting my time
> sifting through the 90% BS to find the 10% needles that makes this
> list worth while. How the hell do CCIE candidates have so much time
> to 'chat' anyway?
>
> Jake
>
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