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 Short Take #40
Changing The Way We Look At Storage\n\nWe start this Short Take with a discussion that occurred on Twitter about the rise and flatline of Intel’s Optane storage. It begins with a good article on Blocks...
Storage Short Take #39
A lot can happen in two weeks…\n\nConference season hasn’t wound down completely, but we’re in the eye of the hurricane before the next round begins. It seems that during this time a lot of storage...
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...
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),...
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 Short Take #37
Major announcements at SDC, a bombshell from Dell, and many new and creative applications for NVMe.
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 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 Short Take #34
Computational storage, an incredibly great value for storage conference ($27!), and some updates in new storage tech.
Storage Short Take #33
Computational storage, an incredibly great value for storage conference ($27!), and some updates in new storage tech.
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!)
Written Exceptionalism
How do you know when something is truly exceptional?