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   Being confident about where you are need to end up but relaxed about how   
   you are going to get there isn't being confused - just being open-minded.   
      
   > The techniques of exploring the greater solution space can be taught,   
   > but not simply explained. Like I can't tell you how to play tennis in   
   > an email.   
      
   You aren't great at explanation at the best of times. Your capacity to   
   explain what you have done isn't great, and your incapacity to lead the   
   reader through the solutions spaces that you claim to have explored does   
   suggest that you do more flailing about than exploring.   
      
   I'm not an enthusiast for the rip-it-up-and-start-over style of circuit   
   design, but it is a necessary part of the designer's tool-kit. You do   
   have to do a certain amount of work to determine whether a particular   
   approach is likely to pay off, and the indications that warn you that a   
   particular approach isn't promising can point you at an approach which   
   is more likely to succeed.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman. Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)