Blessings bride and groom, may you both live lives of love and peace together. The women are intelligently portrayed. Lack of money pinched him. The threat, he wrote, was from some unforeseen transformation of the tech market, the same phenomenon that had crippled IBM, the granddaddy of computer giants, when Microsoft burst onto the scene. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, its a lot more interesting. NASI National Academy of Social Insurance.