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Part One

Learning How

The book's initial chapters present various methods for learning how to
do analog design. Jim Williams describes the most efficient educational
mechanism he has encountered in "The Importance of Fixing." A pair of
chapters from Barry Harvey emphasize the importance of realistic expe-
rience and just how to train analog designers. Keitaro Sekine looks at
where future Japanese analog designers will come from. He has particu-
larly pungent commentary on the effects of "computer-based" design on
today's students. Similar concerns come from Stanford University pro-
fessor Greg Kovacs, who adds colorfiil descriptions of the nature of ana-
log design and its practitioners. Finally, Nobel prize-winning physicist
Richard P. Feynman's 1974 Cal Tech commencement address is pre-
sented. Although Feynman wasn't an analog circuit designer, his obser-
vations are exceptionally pertinent to anyone trying to think clearly about
anything.