[Ol' Sox]

omg, so many self-indulgent words. This is why she does not fit in, and probably never will. At least not in real tech. Oh, she may become a tech writer for a small, old school software outfit, but she is way way too slow to be state of the art.

Listen, turn and burn has been the name of the game in software development for a very long time. One does not have the luxury of dwelling on "deep" unless one is an architect, which she is clearly not. This person is a wannabe code monkey, and her competition lives not in Sunnyvale, but in Bangalore, where they are working 14 hours a day, Pacific time. She is one of the lost, and this article is the beginning of her realization.

[Nifster]

Instrument design cycles are two years at best. Chips have an eighteen month max turn around. Tech has always been fast paced