A series on Hope, part one
A few weeks ago, I got an email from Dylan McGrath at EE Times asking me if I knew of any companies doing well, because he wanted to write some good news. I told him that there was a lot of hope out there, but nothing that can be reported publicly right now. I thought about that email for a while and decided I should talk about what is going on in the world from a larger perspective. So Dylan, this was inspired by you. Bobby Kennedy said during his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination that, "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." A lot of people may think that the US economy indicates too many people have failed greatly already and are wondering when the great achievement is going to begin. But in this first message of hope, I want to start by saying that what we have been daring to do in the past decade is mostly hold on to what we have. We really haven't been doing much to reach for...