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11 piecesthe only way to win
Richard Hamming explained it to a room at Bellcore in 1986. It reads differently now that the typing is free. Immerse yourself in the work. It’s …
the multi-organization problem
A person belongs to many organizations at once. Every tool assumes one, every method assumes a task.
the room that forgot what it was for
Forty years of research built a place for each context and a memory of what it was for. Only the place shipped.
eleven minutes and four seconds
Three fields measured the interruption and none of them priced the time you were gone.
a root to stand on
Every multi-organization tool ships a switcher, not a root. So I built the root Paperclip shipped without.
no process control block
The kernel's context switch is cheap because it saves state first. Ours has no block to save to.
interest, not a toll
Context switching isn't a toll you pay per switch. It's interest on every organization you're not in.
human multi-tenancy
Multi-tenancy was solved for machines two decades ago. For the people running them, it's still memory.
Structured Boredom
Philosophy graduates have a lower unemployment rate than computer science graduates right now — 3.2% versus 6.1%, per the New York Fed’s …
Tickler
What it is Paperclip is an open-source control plane for running agents as a company — roles, budgets, issues, heartbeats — and a single deployment …
zsh_custom
What it is Ten zsh files that load in numeric order, about 3,650 lines, sitting inside the home lab toolkit. The entire thing exists to answer one …