I love articles by James Mickens. His "The Slow Winter" has had profound effect on me. I used to be a guy who was obsessed with imporving the baseline clock frequency for sequential logic design/ processing. Thought that was the only way to faster computation. Add to that, I'd read Igor Markov's "Limits on Fundamental Limits to Computation" and S Llyod's "Ultimate physical limits to computation". I reflected and pondered on how to construct the Ultimate Laptop that can process 10^51 FLOPS/ second. But after reading The Slow Winter, I realized how important power management is, and how much attention it deserves. That led me to explore other domains of computer systems.