Caleb Eastman is a friend and colleague. His LinkedIn profile says he’s ‘always worried about time and timing’. He is busy, but it’s also a play on words that only control engineers get.
Simply put Caleb spends a lot of time getting data from different types of hardware and software to talk on time, in a way that everyone, including the machines, understands.
It can be frustrating and tedious – yet data acquisition is also the limiting factor in organizations truly harnessing the power of data (See: Data is the New Oil).
Which is why he’s busy.
I was coming back from a refresh in the wilds and got a text from him with a link from his Medium blog.
He has a great analogy about computers and tugboats. It’s not actually what you think – but worth the read.
(Oh and Tom originated it.)
If you are interested in the future of A.I. and distributed computing you are going to want to check out the full article here.