The Doctor Is In

Explaining complex ideas in simple ways.
Also, you think too much.

autopoiesis (noun; au•to•poi•e•sis).
Nature self-organizes at all levels of scale in a large number of interacting units - from the very simplest to the most complex. These complex adaptive systems are present in all forms of nature, including human nature.

Storage Technology

Storage Short Take #38

So Much Content, So Little Time\n\nWe’re into conference season, although the stress of burnout and fatigue is very real. Part of my job is to get involved in a lot of these (either as a...

Academia Philosophy

The Honorary Doctorate – The Participation Trophy of Academia

Another Quora question that caught my attention. This one struck a nerve: Is it tacky for honorary doctorates to use the title before their name? This may seem like a biased answer (because it is),...

Entertainment Philosophy Reviews

LTTP Reviews – Flowers for Algernon

“Late to the Party (LTTP) Reviews” are designed to explore and capture creative works that have been released into the wild long ago – sometimes decades before. Movies, films, books, television – they need not...

Storage Technology

Storage Short Take #37

Major announcements at SDC, a bombshell from Dell, and many new and creative applications for NVMe.

Storage Technology

Storage Short Take #36

It’s astonishing how many human miseries can be resolved through forgiveness and radical acceptance. Never forgiving is taking poison to punish someone else—the more you punish the sicker you get.

Storage Technology

Storage Short Take #35

First, a bit of news. This is the first blog being published under the new site redesign. It may take me a while to get used to some of the fancy tools that it has,...

Storage Technology

Storage Short Take #34

Computational storage, an incredibly great value for storage conference ($27!), and some updates in new storage tech.

Storage Technology

Storage Short Take #33

Computational storage, an incredibly great value for storage conference ($27!), and some updates in new storage tech.

Storage Technology

Storage Short Take #32

Western Digital’s very, very bad week, Synology releases a major update to its NAS software, NVMe-oF begins to show some moves, and a really fun bonus round (hint: blast from the past!)