To the soundtrack of Cannonball by The Breeders 1, I flipped the pages of my 2nd edition The Art of Electronics (TAOE) by Horowitz and Hill 2. What was this feeling? How to describe this new sensation? I had literally never come across anything I couldn’t just “figure out” before. It was in late 1993 when I first got my ass kicked by a maths puzzle.
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” – Abraham Maslow, 1966 How did I get started in technology? Great question, let’s explore…
