Optics
topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
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Lutsch: Copper interconnects are reaching physical limits inside data centers
“People are talking about optics now, not only between data center, but also within the data center, because copper comes to its limits how much power it can deliver at what energy that is power that is lost.”
Doshi: Managing teams over 50 inevitably forces leaders into optics work
“Any time a team goes to, like, fifties and hundreds and beyond, it is a law of corporations that you're going to have to spend a lot of time at the optics level.”
Nickels: Executive resource allocation is largely driven by internal optics
“Cause at the end of the day, executive kind of resource allocation is largely based on the quote unquote optics layer.”
Doshi: Dismissing Teams as Optics-Focused Destroys Cross-Functional Collaboration
“It was easy for me to judge Other individuals or other teams saying like, oh, these people are only focused on optics, whereas I am focused on impact and execution, which are the right things to be focused on. And when you start with that sort of feeling, it d…”
Evans: No optical AR technology currently achieves workable outdoor depth and occlusion
“No one has actually got to a point where you have a good field of view, it has depth of field, it works in the outdoors, it can occlude bright objects.”
Conde: Illumina's sequencing breakthrough was driven by engineering, not biology
“And really what drove that wasn't some fundamental discovery on the biology or the science. What drove that was Illumina was able to apply Three very specific and distinct engineering disciplines and converge them. One was the use of microfluidics, the, just a…”