Outside of my normal work (and my family of course) one of my passions has become to do what I can to turn our current seemingly vicious cycle to a virtuous one (hence the name of this blog). 

I believe that we will do that through innovation and invention.  Something of which I believe this country is uniquely capable.

That’s why I do what I can to support STEM education and the high tech entrepreneurial community of Atlanta. 

I came across this article by Peggy Noonan this week (posted by David Cummings on Twitter).   I strongly identified with the sense of wonder regarding computing and technology in general over the course of most of my life.  Jobs and Gates were heros of sorts.   

It will happen again.  It will happen here.

“Dynamism has been leached from our system for now, but not from the human brain or heart. Just as our political regeneration will happen locally, in counties and states that learn how to control themselves and demonstrate how to govern effectively in a time of limits, so will our economic regeneration. That will begin in someone’s garage, somebody’s kitchen, as it did in the case of Messrs. Jobs and Wozniak. The comeback will be from the ground up and will start with innovation. No one trusts big anymore. In the future everything will be local. That’s where the magic will be. And no amount of pessimism will stop it once it starts.” 

Peggy Noonan, “Remembering the Dawn of the Age of Abundance ,” Wall Stree Journal, February 20. 2009.