myhrvold

You know that Myhrvold [0] has henchmen, who do in fact think he's crazy.

It's why people like Paul Allen and Nathan Myhrvold pour money into patent companies.

Check out ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold [0] of Intellectual Ventures [1] infamy.

It's entirely plausible - perhaps very likely - Myhrvold believes in what he's doing, believes in patents, believes patents help innovation, and so on.

Their founder Nathan Myhrvold is the former CTO of Microsoft (he left in 2000), but I don't see any other connections.

Nathan Myhrvold in Modernist Cusine writes about a similar technique.

> Myhrvold believes in what he's doing, believes in patents, believes patents help innovation, and so on.

I doubt very much that Myhrvold has a guilty conscience.

Nathan Myhrvold former CTO at Microsoft had this to say about the differences: So if the ousted dilettante[1] head of a struggling division of some fading megacorp says it, it must be true?

When Nathan Myhrvold visited Google and spoke, I asked him what he thought the "best" way to make BBQ ribs was (with a stretched definition for "BBQ").

From Wikipedia: "After the Science Museum in London successfully built the computing section of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine #2 in 1991, Myhrvold funded the construction of the output section, which performs both printing and stereotyping of calculated results.

Myhrvold provided funds for the British Museum to complete their copy, and build him a complete machine.

Check out Nathan Myhrvold's work, cooking is (or at least can be) very much an intellectual exercise.

Thanks to Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold, many rising culinary stars are visiting Seattle in a form of a pilgrimage.