Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "TSMC's Renegade Genius" video.

On the other hand... those are exactly the kind of word-barfs you hear from people who do not get promoted due to personality issues. I happen to be "one of those people". But rather than bitch about it I've simply accepted that only certain kinds of people should be on my team, and that I should never be put in a position where I have to be "the considerate fatherly type" to make things go smoothly. I don't do smooth. I do effective. People on my team must naturally prefer extreme directness bordering on the outright blunt. "Yes" means "Yes", "No" means "No" and "This approach sucks" does NOT mean "You're a failure as a human being and I hate you now so please go and hang yourself". It means "This approach sucks. We must find another. Any ideas?". The upside is that my team is never late. We get frequent bonuses and extra days off, and our personel turnover is practically zero. People either ask to be transfered within the trial period of three months, or they stick around forever. And management has gotten increasingly good at figuring out who's a good candidate for my team. In return for never advancing I've gotten my own little kingdom. Upper management stays out of my hair, and I stay out of theirs. It's a win-win for everyone when not-at-all-people-persons acknowledge their shortcomings and just collect the other blunt/weird/awkward rejects and make a team out of them. And it can come as no surprise to anyone that in the tech fields there are quite a few who somehow traded social skills for technical prowess.
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@justinliu7357 I'm not small minded. I'm autistic. There's a key difference between being annoyed by emotions and thinking that only ones own emotions are valid (aka being toxic). But as I stated above, someone like me should not be boss. I'm technical chief on my team and my right hand man (whom I've worked with for 22 years) handles personel details and upper management for precisely this reason.
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@JayDee-b5u I work for a subcontractor of a major defence contractor, and we're located in Denmark, so yes, the pay is good to the point that I'm perfectly happy with an annually increase that matches inflation in exchange for not having to take on more management responsibilities.
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@meanieweeny4765 Real time signal analysis and processing. Some of it in the fuzzy grey area between analogue and digital conversion, though these days most sensors we work with have integrated ADCs.
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That's not how patents work. You can't patent "using copper to conduct electricity" because that has (obviously) been done before. IBMs patent detailed a method of getting it to work, but TSMC chose a completely different route.
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@raylopez99 Sigh.. If you listened to what he said: yes they were approached by IBM. And they rejected the offer. It was in the damn video. I simplified the above a bit because people generally misunderstand how patents work, but your wilful misunderstanding shows me what kind of noggin you are, so I won't bother explaining things like prior art that directly prohibit you from "patenting anything". So, uh, "bye" to you as well.
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