Keith Townsend

Joshua 1:6 Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.

Thinking of becoming an independent consultant? The real work starts long before your LinkedIn announcement. You don’t build a pipeline after you quit your job—you build it today. Start talking to peers. What’s actually keeping them up at night? What problems are they solving—or…

Every time I send blog updates via Mailchimp, I get flooded with out-of-office replies. Annoying? Nope, it’s actually fascinating—each auto-reply is a peek into my subscribers' worlds. Today, I found out one subscriber works at @Esri, a leader in GPS mapping software. Cool…

Check out my latest article: A 67-Year-Old Vibe-Coder Is Rewriting the Rules with Generative AI linkedin.com/pulse/67-year-…

🔥 Now that I’m fully independent, I’m putting real skin in the game. I’ll co-invest in your F2000 initiative—my part: covering the cost of the Agentic AI tech partner and offering strategic oversight. Your part? Build in public. Share the wins and the stumbles. I get to tell…

Those that pair AI with their existing knowledge will win.

You want to read something funny? I’ve been procrastinating for months to copy my 5TB of Plex data from my decommissioned Dell 730XD. Finally got it to work and I’m transferring the delta of what I added since the last physical backup to external media. What’s the delta?…

I want to officially document the point in which I gave up trying to get the 5TB of Plex movies off my old Dell server. The point of diminishing return has been reached.

“That’s exactly the key difference. Customer advisory boards put you in a room with people who already believe in your story—they’re your fans. You’re preaching to the choir. The Buyer Room flips that around. It places you face-to-face with the decision-makers who either don’t…

“That’s exactly the key difference. Customer advisory boards put you in a room with people who already believe in your story—they’re your fans. You’re preaching to the choir. The Buyer Room flips that around. It places you face-to-face with the decision-makers who either don’t…

I’m clearly not charging enough - Something you should tell yourself.

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It’s promotion season in consulting. 11 years since I left PwC—and now my peers are celebrating Partner and MD elevations. I may have taken a different path, but their accomplishments remind me: staying the course in this industry is no small feat. Massive respect. 👏

Who reads TheCTOAdvisor.com? 84% are from real-world enterprises (Honeywell, United Airlines, Humana) dealing daily with complex tech infrastructure. 16% are enterprise tech vendors (Dell, HPE, VMware), quietly listening in to hear what's resonating with their customers.…

I create content that impresses the real decision-makers—those who buy, deploy, and manage enterprise tech. Why? Their trust sparks vendor investment. Buyer insights become actionable content that vendors leverage to win buyers. That's the flywheel behind The CTO Advisor & TAB.

Every day at CloudEveryday.dev, we publish one plainspoken post for enterprise cloud leaders. Today’s topic: Is OpenShift really an AI platform? Red Hat pitches OpenShift AI as a developer platform—but most teams I talk to are still gluing together notebooks, GPU…

I’ve fed ChatGPT thousands of prompts—enough to model how an inside sales rep should think. Still, it surfaced @futurumgroup as a sales target. I used to work there and they sell a similar product. This is the ceiling for GenAI reasoning today: pattern-rich, context-poor.

PowerEdge Saga: Episode III Thought I was done. 🚫 No video after GPU install 🧃 Dusted off the ancient 10/100 switch 🧩 Hacked Java into a modern browser 💻 Finally remoted into the box... Only to be defeated by the one proprietary cable I don't have. Who designed this plot…

The cost of Airstream official parts may prompt you to reconsider your life decisions.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a humble home lab or a $30K GPU cluster—your deployment will always be delayed by a missing, wrong, or too-short cable. Always. Build in slack. Budget for chaos. Terraform can’t fix physics.

Evergreen.