First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Silicon Valle
There's a fine line between wanting to and actual doing stuff. Cross it.
New Year, new work…
A year or so has past since my full daytime job.
My last day at ACS, a Xerox company was April 4, 2012, when we were downsized. I was enraged and could only think malaise to my former boss. Xerox was a wonderful company but not in Monterrey. The ACS side were single minded people who could only think of the bottom line.
When I tried a joint project between us and the Xerox Research Centre Europe, things get awry once top management hit their upper wall.
After a while, I realized, I was a big duck in a small pond. Minding the difference, I felt like Alan Kay and Bob Metcalf at Xerox PARC on the 70’s (see my previous blogpost for thoughts on that).
And that’s when my journey begins…
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Start Button on Windows Blue”
Quite a controversy has been spawned by the apparent inclusion of a Start Button on the upcoming release of Windows Blue, aka Windows 8.1.
Life is short,
and Art long,
opportunity fleeting,
experience perilous,
and decision difficult.
