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ETF.18 DHT Preamps Lecture

ETF.18 has been an emotional journey. I moved house literarily when I got back from ETF so my life has been more than hectic over the past few weeks.

I promise I will do a write-up of this amazing experience. There’s a lot of people out there who would love to attend so is my duty to reflect and share as much as I can.

In the meantime, I wanted to share the lecture I gave at ETF on DHT preamps. It was a challenge on its own but went really well. This was my first ETF and without knowing the audience I had to guess the level of detail, entertainment and expectations of an unknown audience. I knew a fair bit of the ETF folks, but audience was big and wide.

I struggled to find the time to prepare this lecture I have to confess. Between moving house, house building works, my second daughter’s arrival , weekly work travel and everything else, I seemed not to find the time to get this done. Thank you Morgan Jones and Rod Coleman for proof-reading and making this an easier task.

I hope you enjoy it. There are some notes on the slides I put together for the people who didn’t attend ETF. Otherwise the slides aren’t of much use on their own.

I’m writing this blog entry whilst enjoying the lovely Bourbon that Pete Millett gave me on the way back. Thanks Pete!

ETF Lecture on DHT Preamps (with notes):

DHT-Preamps-ETF2018-final-notes

ETF Lecture on DHT Preamps (slides):

DHT-Preamps-ETF2018-final

Running

A common theme of our age, run. We keep running, but not physically only. Our minds are constantly interrupted, like an CPU IO interrupt. Well, sort of. You get the gist. We run from home to work, from there to here, from here to nowhere. The reality is though, we are always on the move. Do we really like that? Hey, probably no, but that’s the way things work these days.

I have a hectic life myself, no doubt. As so probably you. Either way, the most precious moments in life – at least in the XXI century – is to unwind, stop and enjoy a bit of the slow movement. Slowly put the needle on that record, slowly sit down on your comfy sofa and slowly pour that single malt.

The rest is your imagination that I will so much struggle to put into words

Ale