Natan Parsons, RIP

Today I went to the funeral of Natan Parsons, a close family friend and my first professional boss. It was my first funeral as an adult, and it was really sad.

Natan was an amazing guy. One of the sharpest I've met, he was also really good at going from a theoretical solution to a practical one in the real world (see his many patents, for example). A lot of people think they're smart when drawing system architecture diagrams on a white board, and that the implementation is trivial. Natan was even smart because he knew the devil was often in the details, and the details were hard, and yet he nailed them.

Natan was a model and an inspiration for me. May he rest in peace.

Baruch atah Hashem Elokeinu melech haolam, dayan ha'emet.