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Projected Ending of Moore’s Law: Can Engineering Creativity Sustain The Rate Of Progress?
The projections of the ending of the Moore’s Law are nothing new — seemingly, they were being made for many decades. For example, back in 2009 an NSF director Jeannette Wing had the following graph in her ACM MobiCom talk … Continue reading
Posted in ASICs, Creativity, Hardware, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry, Industry trends, Research, Technology
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New Management Models: Do They Make Control-Theory And Information-Theory Sense?
There has been a lot of talk lately about new management models, that is, the alternatives to centralized top-heavy decision-making that has been the staple of the corporate world for so long. Coursera has had a fun class on this, … Continue reading
Posted in Communication skills, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry trends, Management, New business models, Uncategorized
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Quirky, which Brought us Pawcet and Hundreds of Other Products, Is No More
Quirky, an invention platform startup that created the magnificent Pawcet, a drinking fountain for dogs, is, alas, no more. After raising more than $180 million from investors and bringing more than 400 products to the market over its 6 years … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer technology, Creativity, Hardware, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry, Industry trends, New business models, Technology
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Experience with Manufacturing
When I was interviewing for PM positions a couple of years ago, I wanted to do what I do now – build exciting real-world products soup to nuts, concept to manufacturing to deployment, algorithms to software and hardware design to … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer technology, Good reads, Hardware, In the news, Management, Technology
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DARPA Project Experience and DARPA Project Leaders
Recent Wired Magazine profile of Dr. Regina Dugan, formerly the director of Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and currently an executive at Google (Wired Magazine article available here) led me to a Harvard Business Review article by Dr. Dugan … Continue reading
Posted in Career and Leadership, Good reads, Management, Ph.D., Technology
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PM Candidates: Ask Questions, Please
All job candidates, for all jobs everywhere, should know to ask questions of their interviewers when prompted. The answer to “Do you have any questions for me?” ought to be never be “no“, for any position. But especially for PM … Continue reading
Posted in Career and Leadership, Communication skills, Industry, Management, Skills, Tips and tricks
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Do not Call People “Resources”
Managers: if you call your people “resources”, they get to call you “overhead”. Calling people “resources” must be one of the worst habits of the different kinds of managers. Yeah, that is the terminology used in the Project Management Professional … Continue reading
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Value of Meetings
Recent results from a study on how one hour of executives’ meetings propagates to hundreds of thousands of hours across the organization are not at all surprising, but its good to see the actual numbers beautifully visualized. The Guardian has … Continue reading
Posted in Communication skills, In the news, Management, Skills
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Nike Will Stop Making Wearable Hardware
Oh, Nike, – really?! Nike’s Fuelband Hits the Wall Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware A company with such rich history of innovation surely could have tried harder to gain and preserve its strategic positioning … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer technology, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry trends, Sports, Technology, Wearable computing
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Lessons Learned from Running Streaks
Running streaks – which I define as running at least 1 mile per day for a large number of consecutive days – are surely an interesting thing to be doing. My longest one so far has been 100+ days: I ran every single day … Continue reading
Posted in Achievement, Running, Sports, Tips and tricks, Training
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