Two books which tread in territory a little too close for comfort to my own personal experiences. The first, a pitiful tale of being surprised that the world you thought you were living in has suddenly disappeared and the joke’s on you. The second , a jeremiad delineating the world that has replaced it-and the […]
I know grasshopper , I know. The tagline on this site is ‘directions in distributed computing’. But remember these vignettes are stepping stones to higher wisdom , a path to enlightenment that will be revealed…or something. The relevance of this little book is that it started me on a tangent of thought that made me […]
I worked for a startup at the turn of the century({‘m old enough to remember when that phrase meant 1900) that almost exactly mirrored the hijinks and mishegas expertly and bitterly depicted here. Twenty years later -the same. The silicon valley scam revealed per all the latecomers and hayseeds who got raped and dismembered by […]
A new series of haiku vignettes leading towards a larger matter: I want to talk about you software, engineers-what we have done , you and I and what you are still doing(I have stopped doing). What’s that old song? “I thought I was riding down the highway , while I was really slip sliding away” […]