The Customer Who Made Me Learn Computers
I did not set out to become a computer person. A customer simply handed us a problem that happened to need one.
Read the tale →Stories from along the way
Gary Tales.
A few stories from a career spent around technology shifts, business problems, and the occasional accidental sake contest.
Start With the End Result
A grainy video on a computer screen gave me a much better education than the one I thought I was missing.
Read the tale →The First Game I Ever Helped Was Wolfenstein 3D
Sometimes being helpful means installing an unpublished game from a stranger named John and seeing what happens.
Read the tale →I Once Gave an NVIDIA Keynote — and I Didn't Work for NVIDIA
A dinner in Tokyo, an accidental sake contest, and eleven hours with a programmer's reference manual.
Read the tale →I Killed Our Own Technology
The hard part was not seeing that Microsoft had a better answer. It was being willing to stop defending ours.
Read the tale →Sometimes You Fix the Bottleneck by Moving Inside It
We stopped pushing certification work across the boundary and put someone where the work actually happened.
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