See also: the Stockdale paradox. We’re not getting out by Christmas. www.jimcollins.com/media_topics...

To be clear I’m not saying you shouldn’t fight. I’m not giving up. I’m just accepting the reality that the fight is not for things to get better, because on the timescales we’re talking about — decades at least — it won’t, and if you hoped for that, you’d lose to despair. The fight is to endure.

Not exactly; I’m just liberating myself from hope. If you fight in the belief that things might get better, you’ll lose hope when they don’t. In embracing the reality — that it only gets worse from here — I’m allowing myself to enjoy these good years, and preparing to endure the harder ones to come.

I’m mostly thinking speed over $, like how long will my prototypes take to clear a queue of 100,000 Temu packages? Vs how long will it take an expensive US board house to fab a nonstandard stackup? 1 week, like before? lol. It’s gonna get harder to move fast and innovate. Only in the US, of course 🫠

this reminds me of a comment from a friend who used to work in the same building as Goldman Sachs, and would post things he overheard in the elevator:
“How’s it going?”
“You know. Market goes up. Market goes down. We make money.”

If you’re working with low power stuff I’d say it’s the best bang per unit buck of almost anything on the workbench! Reliably measures current consumption down to the nanoampere range; I’m using it to test accelerometer modes, tease out when it’s drawing 1.25 µA vs 0.6 µA.