There was a lot of great advice, and I really wonder how much of this I would have listened to myself back in the day. In no order other than the order I found them in my comments and then XTwitter.
This was fun, and if you are just now hearing of T-SQL Tuesday, get involved next month, and the next.
Peter Schott said “start some sort of blog to write down all of the things I did and learned that wasn’t proprietary type information.”
This is big, and one of my main points when I talk about writing.