Month: April 2013

  • Relationships: The Moving Landmarks Of Life

    During my stint in EDA software, I had a lot of dinners with sales guys and their friends. Inevitably dinner conversation turned to comparing Rolodexes* . What ever happened to Soh Insoh, one would say? He’s at Apple working with Frank. Frank left Azul? etc. Every industry is a small world. Of course, sales guys aren’t…

  • All Bleeding Stops Eventually

    “Things which can’t go on forever, don’t” – Stein’s Law Overdrive feels awesome.  We push it and reap huge benefits quickly by pushing the system beyond its normal limits. Unfortunately, the system can’t operate that way forever.  If we use overdrive for too long, the system will break, often irreparably. In most systems though, the…