was that he couldn't expand beyond a technocentric view, nor would he ever admit that contrary perspectives matter. nor, god forbid, might hold water.
he and his buddies held an ironclad belief in their own greater insight into the future of computer security and the place of trusted computing in it. anyone who disagreed must be unable to see what they saw, must be intellectually challenged. even reality must submit to the dream.
he seemed sorta trapped within his own certainty. and he only seemed comfortable when everyone inhabited the same space. so he built strong bonds of friendship and bitter enmities.
it was a sort of cult. and at the heart of it was awk.
with his passing, an era has ended.
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