You've hit a nerve touching on the hidden stories of Silicon Valley which may never get told. (But should.) It's 10:33pm, and I'm just getting back home in San

You've hit a nerve touching on the hidden stories of Silicon Valley which may never get told. (But should.) It's 10:33pm, and I'm just getting back home in San Francisco after spending the day working in San Jose, driving down 101 in the morning, coding, and then driving back after working out at the immense 24 Hour Super Sport off Zanker Road. It's been 7 years since I've really worked back in the South Bay, now making my living building iOS apps. I first got here in 1997 working on building EDA tools as part of the silicon ecosystem that is mostly gone now, punctuated by the different signs on the same buildings you see driving along 101. Different signs. It can be overwhelming to think about all the changes in Silicon Valley since the mid-1970's, about all the stories of the different people here who contributed to that change, with Moore's law the only thing keeping and driving us together. As an example I like to relate, most lay people at best see those past efforts distilled and watered-down in the form of their smartphones today. For those of us who've been at this for a while, we can see the full panoply of life in Silicon Valley embedded in these things.