Tuesday, September 16, 2025

“You get down here and fix this thing in six hours or I’ll have you arrested!”
– Bud Walters, Rock Island Arsenal –

Sometimes the greatest innovations emerge when your options are limited. Just ask Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, who turned a flooding crisis threatening the world’s largest cable network into the breakthrough that gave us self-diagnosing networks and preventative maintenance systems essential to scaling the internet. When your back’s against the wall, that’s often when the real magic happens. For more, Check out The Father of the Cable Modem on How He Avoided Disaster and Created a Revolutionary Product.

Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad