"We're going to have to look at the calendar and do some deep thinking, " he said last week.

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We've already spent some time interacting with the company's new depth-camera and eye-tracking technology, but now we wanted to dig deep to understand the thinking behind the system and what technical and practical limitations that need to be addressed before we can get to the computing future of Star Trek.

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The thinking is that these investors have the experience and deep enough pockets to withstand losses, given that start-ups have a high failure rate.

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Even the most talented in-house executive may be buried too deep in the weeds to ask the tough questions and offer forward-looking thinking to avoid a product becoming obsolete before it even makes it to the market.

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Outside the front door, the air was New England chilly, fresh with the beginning of spring, and I wheeled my chair through the big door, down the ramp onto the sidewalk, thinking of Joey Buckley's brown eyes, deep and dark as winter ponds.

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And in some sense, you take a deep breath and maybe you celebrate for a night and then you start thinking about the next election.

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When faced with tough questions like these, take a deep breath, slow down, and then sound out your thinking process aloud, and walk the interviewer through how you get to an answer.

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