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Brad develops EDA languages and synthesis tools. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.

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Why am I blogging?
  1. I found myself needing to repeat the same information to different people over the months (or years!), and it’s easier to send them a permalink.
  2. Sometimes this is literally a ‘weblog’ where I log things I find especially interesting when surfing the web.  Maybe I’ll want to revisit them someday.
  3. But mostly I’m curious to see what themes emerge! I’m trying to keep it spontaneous and authentic.  ”These colors [...] are not the product of some artistic conception.  They are the flowers from my vine.”
3/2009

3/2009

9/2007

9/2007

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  1. Beautiful cover picture. I want to live on that kind of place.

    • That picture is provided as part of the “Ocean Mist” theme by Bournemouth web designer Ed Merritt. Visit Ed’s website at http://www.edmerritt.com.

    • Wish I knew where that is. Looks a bit like the Finger Lake Region in upstate NY.

  2. According to William Zinsser

    It now occurs to me that I didn’t really find my style until I wrote On Writing Well, at the late age of 52. Until then my style more probably reflected who I wanted to be perceived as—the urbane columnist and humorist and critic. Only when I started writing as a teacher and had no agenda except to be helpful did my style become integrated with my personality and my character.

  3. Someone reached here looking for “Bard Pierce”. How about “Drad Fierce”?

  4. [...] this was also a tweet Brad Pierce replied “@skmurphy A self-supporting nonprofit cannot change anything on a sustained basis? [...]

  5. I’ve learned a lot from blogging, because it’s both a good BS filter and a good nuance adder. Not many people read my blog, but I know they could. And while that makes me avoid a few topics that I might mention in a personal journal, there aren’t really that many. As long as I stay spontaneous and don’t worry about trying to impress (not hard when few are reading), then the fact that someone could read this helps keep me honest and moderate.

    And that feeds back into my everyday thinking. If I can’t stand by it in public, why believe it in private?


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