This is excellent. As a Chief Technologist at Seagate Technology for years, that iceberg is bigger than that. (Imagine the ice on top also has a solid gold center that must be kept afloat by the ice below the surface). Seagate gets out a new product every few weeks for mass markets involving software (that is really hard to get to work but has to look like nothing) and hardware (that is mostly working because of quantum mechanical impossibilities and error correction impossibilities in software) with hardware resets every 25 microseconds in devices that last 10 years without the hope of any service. How? Great project management, where every little thing nugget of ice you see on the surface has a gold center and has tortuorous project management starting every morning at 7AM and going til you drop for the six to eight weeks to "do" a product. 98% of that new product is not actually new. Or it would take 10 years to put it out.

I once walked into a software developers cubicle and there was a little mountain of perhaps 100 laptop disk drives beside him. I asked him what that was and his response? "Divide by zero. Found it." Damn the infinities, full speed ahead!

Down the hall was a cardboard box, perhaps 6X6X6 FEET, kept full of permanently dead disk drives reminding the software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers and theoretical physicists and mathematicians and statisticians and material scientists, and project managers, and executives why they needed to do all the things they needed to do, and why complexity is a job. Even for a product that sells for a hundred bucks and digitally stores half the world's data. And yes, you are reading this right now off of drives I designed with one little simple but unbreakable act of privacy protection that meets GDPR (because I had a hand in that), twenty years ago.