A lifelong entrepreneur and maker, fascinated by the ways in which beautiful and sentimental everyday objects can hold a profound meaning in our lives. My industrial design studio, based in Silicon Valley. Focuses on producing high-end, holy-grail products for enthusiast communities, from bespoke CNC-machined metal housings for computer keyboard modders to insanely accurate official movie prop replicas for sci-fi fans.

Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the sun is enough to make me suffer, how then should I not suffer in the darkness of the endlessly overcast sky of my own life? My isolation is not a search for happiness, which I do not have the heart to win, nor for peace, which one finds only when it will never more be lost; what I seek is sleep, extinction, a small surrender.

The Data Farm is Julie Lerman. She has been programming for nearly 30 years and has been an independent consultant since 1989. Pluralsight Online Video Training Author. Julie has been presenting at leading software conferences ar.

Hellip;but please, call me JD.

Hellip;but please, call me JD.