Work
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Impossibility and Risk
In discussing a difficult, pending project, with many real and imagined obstacles, via email (an imperfect tool) with a partner and colleague. Business and product names have been [obscured] in the text below, to protect the [innocent] and/or [neurotic]. 🙂 <I wrote> As the French writer Andre Maurois said, “the world progresses thanks to impossible things,…
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More early fascination with technology…
I used to love going to where my dad worked. Over 20 years at Cambridge Instrument Co., he moved from clerk to personnel manager (HR). It was a factory in the downtown of my hometown Ossining, NY. They manufactured medical and industrial devices and had an electron microscope on premise! For me, it was a…
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Early fascination with technology…
Back in the day, I made all my own Halloween costumes, usually with the help of my father, sometimes my brother, and later on, my stepmother. Halloween (1966?) was was my first foray into technology — as a robot, maybe inspired by Robbie the Robot of Lost In Space — lovingly constructed out of tin…
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