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January 31, 2005
Who am I
My name is Duane Smith. I am a retired, well, semi-retired, product marketing manager who spent most of his career working in the semiconductor industry. I had some pretty good jobs and have even had my own business. The worst parts of product marketing are reminding the sales staff that lowering prices is not the only response to customer resistance and convincing engineering to design what the customer wants to buy rather than what the engineers want to design. The customer is not always right but is always the customer. The best parts are helping some very nifty technology come to market and the ability to see the world at someone else's expense.
Normally I was able to stay focused on the work at hand while business was being conducted but I have had and still have a set of, what one colleague called, abnormal interests. While such interests have changes over time, they have included:
Syro-Palestinian archaeology - I have done fieldwork at Gezer in Israel,
Ugarit and the Ugaritic language - I have published a very few articles,
Religion,
Pre-Socratic philosophers - my focus was on Parmenides,
Philosophy of Science - not very focused,
Mark Twain - interested in understanding Twain's view on the differences between white Americans and Europeans,
Paleoanthropology - interested in the beginning of speech but issues of evolution and attacks on teaching science are part of the mix,
Current events,
How ideas are marketed.
Being far from an expert on any of these things, I will, nonetheless, blog on them and other topics as salient issues arise.
For those who like a more formal resume:
Wives - 1 (Shirley)
Children - 2 (grown and on their own)
Cats - 1 (Socrates, aka Soc)
BSEEs - 1 (USC - Electrical Engineering - 1964)
MThs - 1 (Claremont School of Theology)
MAs - 1 (Claremont Graduate School University - Comparative Near Eastern Studies)
This is, more or less, what I look like.
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