The Corvette

A guy at work was selling his Corvette that he had bought to race, but after he made a few minor modifications to it, and before ever racing it, Ford came out with the Shelby Cobra. He would have been…

Silicon Valley

A Personal History of Silicon Valley This title may be a bit overstated as to what this blog will cover, but since I did start in Silicon Valley in 1965, my work experience here does cover a lot of time…

People Taste Bad

How did man evolve from being a strong, primarily tree dwelling ape-like animal into being a hairless, weak, slow, defenseless ground dwelling humanoid without being rendered extinct by predatory animals like lions, hyenas, leopards etc. that lived in the same…

Panama

Panama Cruise   Gale and I went on a cruise March 2016.  The cruise was out of Fort Lauderdale and went to several places in the Caribbean, including the Panama Canal.  I decided for a change in the subjects I…

Important Inventions

Silicon Valley Book I wrote Fairchild Intersil 2 short jobs AMD Synergy Tropian GL & Broadcom Silicon Valley Today Work Advice Interviewing Get Noticed Work Suggestions Solving Problems Managing People Family histories Ancestors Marshall’s GGF Wilder History Travels Rome –…

Goofy Theories

These ideas are presented without any hard proof, and may be totally off base.  I invite comments and critisisms, and maybe even support from some folks who are more knowledgable than myself.  The first two sections have to do with…

Golf

Golf – the name of the sport should be another four letter word starting with F, but that word was already taken.  I am not a good enough golfer to write any advice, or help or comments about golf, so…

GL & Broadcom

Global Locate 2005 – Global Locate was a very cool startup making Global Positioning System (GPS) integrated circuits.  I was hired to be Vice President of Quality and Reliability, but I was soon promoted to VP Operations.  I have already…

Get Noticed

Get noticed   OK, so you got hired.  How do you maximize your chances of success besides from being brilliant and hard working?  Get noticed.  People need to know who you are in order to comment about you, care what…