The first section deals with workplace issues and experiences, based on empirical data - actual experiences through the eyes and ears of someone who was really there. The second section deals with personal observations, musings, anecdotes, and life lessons. All are based on the author's perspective. Technocrat or technopeasant, Luddite or geek - here you can find the author's pensive insights, observations, experiences, musings, and anecdotes of a life working in high tech from Boston to Silicon Valley, from South Florida to Southern California, in Asia and various lands in between.