Working in the consumer electronics hardware business has been a massive education.  I now know what it takes to drive a manufacturing line in China from creating the steel tooling to combining molded plastic within test tolerances to internal components like printed circuit boards, to packaging, to international electronics testing compliance to putting everything on [...]

Let me begin by noting I know a few people peripherally (writers, producers, actors) involved with the creation of the show “Big Bang Theory” (BBT). I also know many nerds who are the subject of, impacted by, or otherwise in the orbit of the show itself. BBT, as has been typical in the past, was [...]

I sometimes think I was born too early. It’s unlikely that the most basic questions of our inter, or intra-stellar existence, will be answered before I die. And sometimes I feel I was born at as good a time as any. I turned 40 this week. And on the eve of the anniversary of my [...]

For the vast majority of my life I’ve worked at a single place, specifically a corporation working on software.  Now that my book is finished (more news on that later) I’ve been looking for a new opportunity.  Writing and consulting are still very important to me, but along side that I went looking for a [...]

Most geeks, sort of by definition, are at least some part socially awkward penguins. Which means in a sense that many situations that a lot of people find perfectly normal we might find daunting and will therefore approach from our typical analytical viewpoint as to how we can undaunt the daunting or at least blunt [...]