Danger, Danger! Will Robinson! Early one morning in October 1984, I walked into a dimly lit room, deep within the chemistry building at UC Berkeley. Someone had only shown me this procedure earlier in the week. But I walked up to a strange apparatus, opened it and grabbed a container of a mysterious powder, carefully…
Tag: Integrated Circuits
Ink, Digital Cameras and the Innovators Dilemma
This is a story of unadulterated profit-seeking and how that mentality threatens to cloud your thinking in the corporate world. When I was at HP Laboratories, my colleagues and I were constantly busy, toiling away at any number of technologies. Many of those technologies were based upon semiconductor manufacturing processes and Integrated circuit design that would eventually…
Your Early Career is a Contact Sport
I’m always amazed when I talk to friends from outside of the Bay Area that the general consensus is that a day at work here plays out a lot like the movie “The Intern.” It’s all about the perks and the fun, without any of that pesky work getting in the way. The cool, free lunches and disruptive…
From Chemistry to Clouds 