Technology?
I thought Bourland was a musician?
Bourland is also an electrical engineer.
Having spent most of his early life taking stuff apart, most of which
wasn't likely broken to begin with and probably never worked again.
Bourland just liked to know how things worked. It is true, music was
his first love; it was not his last. Music introduced young Bourland to
guitar effects and amplifiers and he definitely wanted to know how they
worked. Cruising along playing music, skate boarding and generally
slacking in school there was one constant: MATH. Bourland was good at
math. Though he rarely won the math races on the chalk board, Bourland
was methodical and deliberate. There was a certain intuition that he
couldn't always explain and a disciplined approach to problem solving.
As fate would have it, when Bourland was a senior in high school, an
engineer from NASA came to his class for career day. Bourland's science
teacher was worried Bourland wasn't going to go to college and choose
to chase a dream of fame and fortune in music. Bourland had just
received his SAT scores and while they were a little lacking in English
and such, his math scores were very good. As it turns out, the engineer
from NASA was also a musician and brought a guitar, an amp, guitar
effects and an oscilloscope to the class with him. Finally, there was
someone right in front of Bourland explaining how electric guitars,
amplifiers and effects worked! He brought up the waveforms on the scope
and explained the decay in the guitar signal and inductors for pickups
and just about every damn question Bourland could ask in an hour or so.
Holy crap! Bourland was going to college!
Guitars,
grades and graduation
So off to college the young wild eyed
Bourland goes. Rule # 1, guitars and grades don't get along. After a
horrible first year, Bourland took his guitar home and left it there.
His grades improved dramatically but that would not be the last
challenge. Academia didn't always suit Bourland. He wanted to
understand the core theory not just mechanical memorization and
regurgitation. Still, his math skills got him through and when he
finally hit his upper level electrical engineering classes he
discovered he was also good at analog. While the entire economy and
world were racing along towards a digital future, there was Bourland
finding out he was good at analog. Engineering students were beginning
to flock to digital design. Today the ratios are horrible with only 1
out of 20 electrical engineering students choosing analog, But as
things work out, the world is analog. No way around it. Nature doesn't
deal in 1's and 0's. So being good at analog turns out to be a
wonderful thing and as the digital revolution keeps turning, it keeps
creating new needs for analog to translate all those 1's and 0's into
something we can understand. At Texas A&M, Bourland meets a
professor by the name of Dr. Randy Geiger and from that moment forward,
Bourland knew he wanted to design analog integrated circuits.
Microchips. Microelectronics. Silicon. Cathedrals of Sand. But it was
not going to be a direct path. Completing his senior project, a
bi-quadratic, adaptable, current mode filter fabricated using the MOSIS
program, Bourland graduated having made A's in every class related to
analog including Dr. Geiger's ELEN 474 VLSI class.
The
peaks and valleys of silicon hills
It was 1990. The semiconductor market was
in the dumps. Jobs were scarce and Bourland wanted to live in Austin,
Texas so he could play music again. While working as a co-op at
Datapoint in San Antonio, Bourland discovered a writer named George
Gilder from one of the chief architects while doing research for a
paper titled The renaissance Engineer. Not only describing how Bourland
saw himself but also describing the need for modern engineers to be
well versed in a wide range of disciplines and social skills. The best
design engineers are those that can understand the customer's needs,
often times because they are a user/customer themselves, and solve the
problems of use not just technology. To do that one must know stuff.
The classic case of the Palm vs. the Newton. The Palm had that perfect
blend of usability and technology like catching a wave. Good surfers
miss waves sometimes and great companies miss the ball. Fast forward
look and that damn ipod! There was some article in Forbes by George
Gilder called You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. And Bourland wanted to know
what it he hadn't seen. That led to the book Microcosm by George Gilder
and in fact Bourland nearly failed a class the following semester
because he couldn't put that damn book down. Bourland was reading about
how the quantum revolution was overthrowing the industrial revolution.
How quantum physics and semiconductors were overthrowing the world of
Newtonian physics, planes, trains and automobiles in the world's
socio-economic and political landscape. As a side note, this is also
where Bourland discovered supply side economics through the book Wealth
and Poverty also by George Gilder. Wealth and Poverty has been said to
be the basis for Regan's trickle down economics or voodoo economics as
it's known by by it's critics. Bourland was officially a capitalist,
believing in the entrepreneurial spirit of enterprise. He would start
his own company someday.
Bourland
rides the lightning @ Dell
By chance, as Bourland looked for a job in
Austin, Texas hoping to get on with Motorola, he applied at this little
company called Dell Computer Corp, formerly PC's Limited. Michael Dell
was some kid Bourland's age that had started a company in his dorm room
building personal computers for his friends. Bourland was the first new
grad engineer hired into the verification team. Back then the plan was:
install every hard drive, network card, video card, software and
operating system ever known to cause a problem and see what happens.
There were a total of 100 engineers in R&D at Dell and more work
than you could get done. Bourland held various positions at Dell from
test to design but in the end Dell was a marketing company that
happened to have engineers. Some brilliant engineer at that, but still
marketing made the decisions and they weren't always that great. Intel
ruled with an iron fist. We used to say "Intel doesn't have customers,
they have hostages." But to his credit, Michael Dell knew he had to be
allied with Microsoft and Intel. He killed Dell Unix. He ran every
other CPU core out of the building and he built a relationship, while
tenuous at times, he built a second to none, BFF, relationship with the
two companies that had all the cards. No doubt Michael Dell is one of
the most adept businessmen minds on the planet. When Intel said use
this 386SL and 360SL in your new notebook instead of that 386SX even
though engineering was ready with the SX and it would take a new
circuit board and BIOS to get the SL architecture working. Worse yet,
the SL had lots of errata. But Michael knew he had to find some
leverage against Compaq. The story goes that when Compaq started using
AMD 486's, Intel suddenly didn't have 586 samples and documentation for
Compaq and Dell beat Compaq in 586 shipments not only by being first
out but in volume too. Dell went from something like100 million/year to
2 billion/year between 1990 and 1994 and passed Compaq, eventually
becoming the # 1 PC company in the world. Even with the long hours and
challenging work environment, it was an amazing ride. A one point in
time, Bourland would share a cube with none other than Chris Goggans,
Erikb, editor of Phrack, of famed LOD vs. MOD hacker wars and the Steve
Jackson games raid. It was a crazy time in the world and in Bourland's
life. Fast company, fast cars, rock and roll and fast women. In the end
Bourland wanted to do analog IC design and when Motorola SPS came
knocking with a nice job offer, Bourland had sold his meager 300
shares/options of Dell stock and headed for greener pastures. At the
time, Bourland looked like a genius. He sold his stock near an all time
high of 49/share and not long after it was down around $13 as Dell hit
it's first losing quarter in history. Bourland used the money to buy
his first oscilloscope, a 200MHz Tektronkix TDS 310, and a 65 Chevy
pickup. Oh yeah, and that hat he always wears, but that's another
story.
Transcending
the hierarchy from software to silicon
Bourland had arrived. He was finally at a
semiconductor company. The one he had always wanted to work for,
Motorola SPS (Semiconductor Product Sector). The good guys. The one's
with the white hats. A CPU architecture without a colon in the middle
of the address space. Analog integrated circuit design! Oh yeah. But
not so quick young man. Fist stop: product engineer on the MC68HC11C0
microcontroller unit (MCU). Yes, ladies and gentlemen product
engineering. What the hell does a product engineer do? Well. basically
everything after the designer is done. Tests, tests and more tests.
Guarantee that the parts get to the customer fully tested and without
huge yield loss. Basically cleaning up other people's messes, but it
was still great. Bourland would go down to the cafeteria and there were
engineers everywhere. You sit down at a table, any table and they were
talking about capacitors and MOSFETs and resistors, diffusion
resistors, poly resistors and diodes, PLL's (Phase Locked Loops, oh so
analog) and ADC's (Analog to Digital Converters). He was in heaven.
Playing guitar in The Texas Philistines and working at Motorola. Life
was good and it got better. He gets a write up in the Austin Chronicle
for his Growler guitar effect. But Bourland still wanted to do analog
integrated circuit design, damn it! And he was gonna find a way to make
it happen. Spending about 2 1/2 years as a product engineer, a great
way to get introduced to the world of semiconductors by the way,
Bourland was itching to get into design. So he did what any good
engineer does when he wants something, he gets a job offer from
somewhere else. In this case it was AMD. AMD had just bought NextGen
and that team was looking for a verification/design engineer. Bourland
would have to leave his beloved Austin, but damn it he wanted to do
design. When Greg White, the general manager of Motorola SPS HC11
group, got word, he called Bourland into his office. He says, "Bourland
what's it going to take to keep you here at Motorola?" You see Bourland
had already done his homework. Mike Gladden had just moved into the
office down the hall and he was the analog mixed signal design manager.
Bourland had already stopped by to ask Mr. Gladden what it would take
to get into analog design, would he need a masters degree? Gladden
said, "hell, Bourland all I need is a req, we can put you to use right
away!" Armed with that, Bourland told Mr. White, "I want to make this
much money and work for Mike Gladden." Without hesitation, Greg White
said "consider it done." It was 1997 and Bourland was officially
joining an analog mixed signal design team. Life was real good! Of
course there was the occasion tinge of pain as he watched Dell stock
split, over and over and over again. Ouch! Man, that was an expensive
O-scope and vintage truck. Don't forget the hat. That beautiful cowboy
hat.
The
wonderful world of analog mixed signal integrated circuit design
Life in the wonderful world of
microcontrollers and CMOS semiconductors was good. Working for Gary
Daniels, Greg White, Brian Wilkie, Pat Laviolette and Mike Gladden was
as good as it gets. Pat Laviolette was a design manager that believed
in a disciplined, methodical design flow that was heavy on reuse,
verification and test including Digital Virtual Tester. Product
engineering no longer had to wait for silicon to see if their test
programs worked and test engineering was part of the design team.
It was the engineering equivalent to Camelot. "But not so fast young
man", Gladden tells Bourland "before you get to do design we have a job
for you. You see, we have that HP83K ATE tester and we need you to
generate the patterns and the test program to evaluate this PLL and
ADC." "Great," Bourland thinks, "I finally get into design and I'm back
doing product engineering and test." Of course, it was an excellent way
to learn about PLL's and soon Bourland was doing design and had already
made himself useful to the team. First design job: PADS. Microchips
have to interface to other microchips on a printed circuit board (PCB).
They need power pins and IO (Input/Output) pins and analog pins and
clock pins. Those pins on the packaged silicon need to get to the
silicon and in this case that was visa vi a bonding wire, a landing pad
of top layer metal on the silicon chip or die. Oddly the landing pad is
just a slab of metal. There's a lot of electronic circuits and serious
considerations like ESD and Latchup attached to those pads. Not sexy
like a Low Frequency Receiver, more like fundamental. Blue collar
design engineering. You get the point. Over the course of 11 years in
design Bourland worked on many projects and saw the company go
through good times and difficult times. He watched as the company
that he knew and loved (Motorola) lost its way, spun off the
semiconductor unit and neither were ever the same. My bet is the
semiconductor unit now Freescale will find it's way . With Rich Beyer
and a new found focus on analog, maybe life will get back to normal.
Bourland had the good fortune to work on the following projects and
collaborate with some brilliant engineers while at Motorola/Freescale
- Designed
I/O pads and pad ring for a 144 pin 32-bit MCU. Bourland's first design
project. Needed new 3V pad driver with 5V tolerant input. Took over for
an engineer that had left the company. Project was delivered on
schedule, with first pass success. Pads are an excellent introduction
to CMOS integrated circuit design. They are custom circuits, meaning
the layout process is manual. So an engineer becomes familiar with all
the layers. CMOS semiconductors are doped silicon (active) regions on a
doped silicon substrate. Above that are oxides, poly-silicon gates,
more oxide (oxides are use as insulators in semiconductor processes)
and more layers of metal with vias to connect between metal layer. Each
of these layers has to be physically drawn on the computer, a process
known as layout. In the case of pads and pad rings in a Bulk CMOS
process, ESD and Latchup are serious considerations with diminished
ability to simulate and predict behavior prior to tape out.
- Developed
verilog RTL control block for a wheel speed timer circuit for an
automotive ABS
MCU. Tasks included verilog code development, synthesis, place and
route, clock
tree insertion and evaluation pattern development. Worked on an
amazing team. The analog designer, Patrick Falvey, was top notch
and a is still a close friend. The verification engineer was a real
hoot, hippie beads on his cube entrance, naps under his desk, yoga and
crazy loads of holistic medicine in his cube cabinets. Strangely, for
an enlightened being he sure could be confrontational. Regardless, he
was good. We were the long pole in the schedule, the critical path, the
whole project and yet we delivered on schedule. This project is where I
gained a deep respect for the leadership of Mike Gladden. He nailed
that schedule with in a week or so. While other managers played
schedule chicken waiting for someone else to slip their schedule,
Gladden came out and said the WST will be done on this date. And after
being on the critical path the entire schedule, the WST was the
second macro done and fully functional on fist silicon.
Bourland was living a dream. RTL, synthesis and automated place and
route? It was the silicon compiler from George Gilder's Forbes
article about Carver Mead. 1000's of lines of verilog RTL code get
synthesized into an actual circuit and laid out automatically. This was
cool stuff but still Bourland wanted to do analog design and he would
get his chance but it would mean parting ways with Mike Gladden.
- Designed
a charge-pump PLL to integrate the loop filter and add built in test
modes for
TSMC 0.25u process. PLL included
delta-Vbe current reference, transconductance amp, differential ring
oscillator
and a phase-frequency detector. Developed
verilog RTL and synthesized feedback divider. Bourland finally had an
analog design project. It meant leaving the strong leadership and
wonderful fellowship of Mike Gladden's team and starting a new team
with Art Collard. The project turned out to be a nightmare as engineers
in the India Design Center kept leaving and several senior engineers on
the US design side left during the project. The sponsor of the
part and leader of the Sea of Gates (SOG) System on a Chip (SOC)
methodology , Chase Studor, left the company taking some very talented
engineers with him. Bourland did what he always does, deliberate,
methodical execution. Eventually the part taped out (taping out is a
term that actually goes back to a time when the design database and
mask sets representing the physical process layers and shapes were put
on tape and sent to the fab). The PLL came back and worked just fine.
Bourland had achieved first pass success on his first PLL design. He
was officially a successful analog designer.
- Debugged a broken crystal oscillator amplifier. The
crystal amplifier was new and the designer had left the company. The
PLL worked just fine with an external clock source but turn on the
crystal amp and the MCU was dead. Nothing. No clocks. There turned out
to be two problems. First, the PLL and crystal amplifier required a
current and/or voltage reference from the bandgap. The bandgap had a
digital pulse starter instead of an analog self start mechanism. The
crystal amp had to generate the clock for the the bandgap pulse starter
but it needed the bandgap to start. A system level issue with an easy
metal only fix to get the pulse from the POR (Power On reset) signal.
The second problem was that AGC (Automatic Gain Control) was broken.
Again a simple metal only fix was found. Both were verified with a FIB
(Focused Ion Beam used to edit microelectronic circuits after
fabrication). This was a particularly difficult time for Bourland. Can
you say Re-Org? A reorg had happened. Art Collard was let go and
Bourland had a new boss. The part he had worked on had been transferred
back to Pat Laviolette and Mike Gladden and Bourland wasn't going with
it. He had a new boss, Jim Feddler, and a new boss's boss, Chase
Studor. Yup he was back. And now he was the big cheese design manager.
Out of respect for Mike Gladden and Pat Laviolette, Bourland fixed the
crystal issue instead of working on his new assignment under Jim
Feddeler. Not a great way to start under a new manager, partuicularly
if his name is Jim Feddeler, but the time it took Bourland to fix the
issue was a fraction of what it have taken womeone unfamiliar with
design and that person would have been Bourland's buddy You Got The
Falvey! Not something Bourland could do. Over the years Bourland
developed a reputation as someone who just got it done.
- Developed
a Matlab model for pll loop stability analysis including 2nd,
3rd
and 4th order loop filters and running both linear
time-invariant and
discrete time analysis. The Matlab
program includes 2nd, 3rd and 4th
order loop
filter component calculator based on desired phase margin and Gardner ratio.
The model was used to
successfully address a wide range of customer issues from reference
spurs on an
RF transmit channel to simple filter component calculations
and parameter
tweaks required for process transfers. Performed
PLL inter-modulation analysis of a wireless USB transceiver. This is a
period of time where Bourland worked with Jim Feddeler to overcome the
initial adversity in their relationship and learned that Chas was a
pretty damn good person. Life was good again. Hell Bourand had
even impressed the Fedd with a deep pretty strong understang of phase
noise in a wireless PLL. Reference clock spurs, intermodulation,
thermal noise, 1/f noise and the like. Deterministic vs. random
noise.There was old Ludwig Boltzmann in every formula for random noise
perturbation functions. Bourland learned about state variables and
worked closely with Taiwan and Suzhou design engineers fixed a range of
issues and mentoring junior engineers while solving complex issue
remotely. Bourland was back and ready to take on the world. Once asking
Mario Rivas in a group communication meeting why Motorola didn't have
an 802.11 solution and why weren't we working on a universal MAC
layer. Only to be ridiculed by the senior technical contributors. Why
would Mario care about a MACC?" Thinking Bourland was talking about
Mutliply Accumilate instructions. When what Bourland was talking about
with the Media
ACcess layer. It turns out that MAC
layer in wired
and wireless ethernet (802.3 and 802.11) share a large amount of logic
and it was likely one could create a single MAC
layer that could support both and likely also support 802.15
(Bluetooth). Leaving the risky physical layers off chip on the first
round, one MCU could go into three vertical markets. Meanwhile the
physical layer for 802.3 could be developed in house, put on a test
chips. Initially to be sold separately, then integrated to create a
single chip MCU. Upper management decides to buy 802.3 IP and integrate
it rather than develop in house. It was rewarding that a few months
later, Mario had a brown bag lunch and all he could talk about was
802.11. Those same senior technical contributors had to eat crow. Mario
left to go to Philips to work on and
Bourland went back to the grind.
- Led
a small team to develop two low power internal clock sources and a
verilog RTL
control block for low power MCU operation. Tasks included mentoring two
new
design engineers, spec development, system level architectural
definition, RTL
development, test development and driving the schedule for all modules.
- Developed
a fully
differential, low power, low frequency magnetic inductance receiver
with auto-zero and built in test modes. Worked with a global project
team to
develop two similar modules from concept through implementation. Tasks
included
schedule development, architectural investigation, spec development,
spice
simulations, test chip development, schematic capture and layout, and
silicon evaluation. Delivered
on schedule
with 1stpass
success. The coolest project period. Designed for remote tire pressure
sensing, the low frequency receiver was able to receive 2mVp-p
Amplitude Shift Keyed (ASK) Data to wake up the MCU and the movement
detector could sense when the car was moving. Bourland uses his
dimplomatic skills to improve the relationship between the Austin and
Brazil analog design teams, life is good. Bourland turns down another
handsome offer from AMD and is granted U.S.
PAT # 7,236,014
- First
place winner of the 2006 Freescale Free Your Mind Design Challenge:
developed
design challenge guide lines and format now being used for the FTF
Design Challenge. Entered a design for an automated, Zigbee
enabled, solar
powered green house called the Green Machine. Left Freescale to join
AMD prior
to the prototype phase. This was part of an initiative at Freescale
called Free Your Mind. The Free Your Mind team is Bourland's fondest
memory of Freescale and was without a doubt the # 1 thing that made
leaving Freescale so difficult.
- IO
pad library development supporting low leakage 0.18um and 0.25um
technology. Tasks included schedule
development, spec
development, coordination with global teams in Suzhou, China and
Munich,
Germany, mentoring jr. engineers in Suzhou, test vehicle
development and oversight
of evaluation (ESD, Latch-up, AC/DC performance), generation of all
chip integration
views (.lef, .lib, .v, .gds, lvs) and timing
characterization/simulation. The project that drove Bourland out of
Freescale and onto greener pastures once again. A thankless job where
Bourland worked 7 days/wk, 80-100hour/wk for six months and quit
playing music to deliver the smoothest new pad library release in
multiple generations in terms of SOC integration view generation and
product quality silicon on the first pass in two technologies. But
still thank you Mr. Feddeler, a brilliant engineer and technical leader
that just should not have been Bourland's manager. He used to tell
Bourland regurlarly, "Bourland, you should be my boss." He never knew
how right he was but Bourland didn't know it at the time either.
Feddeler used to say, "Bourland, you're better at getting other people
to do their work than anyone I've ever met." But as with most brilliant
people, Jim Feddeler coun't take his own advice. And to be honest it's
something that plagues the analog design community. As rare as analog
designers are, analog designers with people skills are ever more rare.
When it comes to managment, you need people skills. Unfortunately to be
successful in analog design you need experience and deep technical
knowledge. So analog design managers are often the most technical guy
or gal on the team. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. In this
case, it finally didn't work for Bourland. Word is, things have
improved and there's no doubt Bourland is nonetheless grateful for all
that he learned while working with the brilliant engineers on
Feddeler's team and around the globe. It was not an easy thing to
leave.
A new
lease on life at AMD
Bourland finally takes a job offer from
AMD. The best career move in the last several. Bourland goes from
working on 0.5um CMOS design in 2004 with PLL VCO (Voltage Controlled
Oscillator) speed of 120MHz, to 0.045um or 45nm in 2006with VCO speed
of 5-10GHz. Bourland found a culture at AMD that totally fit. More on
this soon. For now lets just say Bourland is working on 32nm and having
the time of his life.
Ok, so some of this is half baked. We'll do
a re-read and apply proper
editorial filtering like spelling check and add links. Hopefully the
readership will be low because its getting published. Hope you enjoyed
the read.
The
original Bourland tehnology page
Technology has played a wonderful role in
world of music. In
fact, during the early days of our developing understanding of the
physical sciences, say 1600-1800's, it was music and sound that were
the technology of the times. Amplification was mostly acoustic, but
that all changed with the advent of the vacuum tube in 1879. The
triode was not really invented until about 1906, but it was Thomas Alva Edison
that paved the way with that simple little light bulb. Anyhoo, what
always amazes me is how dramatically electronics has influenced the
way we relate to music and sound. It is a harsh reality that the
abstract
nature of the acoustics link in the audio chain has obscured its
importance. The sudden availability of controllable gain ushered in 125
years of electronic audio experience that changed our relationship to
music forever. The feeling of comfort and familiarity when using
microphones, amplifiers and loudspeakers is entirely lacking in how we
relate to the acoustical (i.e.. physical) environment in which those
devices operate. Acoustics is the science of sound with two distinct
natures: physical and psychological. Sound as the fluctuating molecular
densities in air is physical; sound as perceived by the ear is
psychological. Electronics widened the gulf in our understanding
between listening to the music of Bach or Pink Floyd and those darn
fluctuating molecular densities in air. Bourland wants to narrow that
gap with devices like theremins on
steroids and The Bourland Beat Box, an improved stomp box being created
specifically for John
Pointer. John may be one of the few folks capable of actually
driving the crazy contraption.
But Bourland is into more than just closing the gap between the
acoustic and electronic worlds. Here on the technology page there are
links to cool stuff like Wi-Fi
QoS
, audio
effect circuit design, great
audio codecs, historical information like the story of Ludwig
Boltzmann and new technology like Carver Mead
and Neuromorphic
IC
design. Check out George Gilder's
latest rant
on Wi-Fi and how he believes his dearest Qualcomm has
so much more to offer. Soon Bourland will have information on what he
calls
the Gildered Age. The age of abundance. Basically, Bourland plans to
use this page to give
his take, for what it's worth, on a wide
range of technology subjects. The audio circuit design portion of
this site will eventually move over to
Bourland Audio Labs, once he has some noteworthy audio electronics to
offer. Bourland will also give updates and report on the trials and
tribulations of a
circuit designer, entrepreneur, artist, musician, mad scientist as he
goes through the pain,
sweat and toil of creating a successful new product or two.
Expect an update soon!
Many
engineering companies today seem to have lost the creative edge. Many
of today's established engineering firms struggle to
imagine anything outside what they already do and worse yet it seems
they have
lost the intellectual curiosity required to be innovative. Imagination,
ingenuity, creativity, discipline, competition and good fortune
combine to make some focused people very wealthy, but it all starts
with an idea. Bourland has had many ideas, but he is not wealthy. He is
not the
CEO of a technology company. Creativity alone is not enough. Focus and
discipline are required. Striking the balance between form and
function, performance and cost, usability and development time are well
and good, but at the end of the day it comes down to discipline, vision
and faith. Vision is not taught in engineering school. Sure engineers
learn
discipline by solving complex math and physics problems through long
nights studying,
but the visionary is different. The visionary sees things not as
they are but as they imagine them to be. The whole build it and they
will come idea. This is why Bourland believes in supply side economics.
People
didn't know they needed a cell phone or an mp3 player or a Bourland
Beat Box for that
matter, but someone out there had an idea and the focus, discipline
and faith in themselves and others to make it a reality. That is the
significance of Ludwig
Boltzmann's story. If he had the kept the faith
for a little longer, he would have lived to see his ideas proven true
rather than hanging himself thinking he was a failure. So when Bourland
struggles and fails, when he thinks "Dang, I must be an idiot!" He just
thinks to himself "six more months and I might be a genius".
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