I was trying to draw a blood flow animation, but it did not look satisfactory to me and thus produced a quick splatter variation.
2022-03-06
Autarky and innovation
A major tech company would like to own an entire meta-verse platform from hardware (servers, HMDs) to software (standards, libraries, applications), and plans to start reproducing the capabilities of existing components.
This sounds less innovative/fun than building on top of what is already out there (e.g., existing hardware and libraries), and innovation benefits more from collaboration than isolation, aside from the purpose of learning/experimentation (like this guy building chips in his parents’ garage).
SaaS and sanctions
A cloud-based software or data storage can be switched off at any moment to deny access to anyone, and is harder to pirate or circumvent than software sold as digital copies.
2022-03-05
Dangerous ideas
When an idea is considered too dangerous to even talk about it is a sign that it hits some nerves.
2022-03-02
Do you really want to be in management?
I have some discussions with people (mostly junior individual contributors) asking about moving into management roles.
There are plenty discussions and advices about this topic, but here are some quick personal takes (within the scope of tech/research):
It is a trade-off (opportunity cost) between what you can do as an IC or a manager; the main difference lies in whether you want to spend time and efforts managing people, such as recruiting, guidance, monitoring, review, attending meetings, and dealing with whatever issues your direct reports throw your way.
Influence and leadership are largely orthogonal from people management; one can be a highly influential thought leader without being a people manager, or a people manager who lacks charm or credibility.
Like other career choices, management is worth trying, at least to get a sense of what it is really about (instead of just what you thought/imagined it would be) and whether you will like and excel at it.
There are intermediate steps, such as tech leads, which sit between IC and managers to give you a taste about managing more on the technical than the personal side of things.
2022-03-01
2022-02-27
Long table
Seam carving (content-aware resizing) does not work well for this photography, so I manually edited it via a few tools.
2022-02-23
WCD 248 Harbor
This is a visual impression of a place as an experimentation with Adobe Fresco grid guide.
Father helps by making money
I like this cute drawing by my niece of her father (my brother).
🙂