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15 piecesfourteen hundred and thirteen
Microsoft fixed more bugs in one month than in any year before. When finding gets that cheap, nobody fixes pieces anymore. They take them off the board.
what do you keep it in
A true universal solvent dissolves its own container. The last vessel is the describer.
a household again
Agents give everyone a staff. A staff was never what made a company. It's what made a household.
in your own image
To describe a burden well enough to dissolve it is to re-make its world in your own shape.
the solvent that is not consumed
Water saturates and money gets spent. Software does neither, and that is the whole argument.
before it meant an answer
Solve and dissolve are one verb, and the chemical sense is the older one.
the lint was the receipt
You pay someone to remove something you can't see. What you actually buy is the photograph.
the multi-organization problem
A person belongs to many organizations at once. Every tool assumes one, every method assumes a task.
eleven minutes and four seconds
Three fields measured the interruption and none of them priced the time you were gone.
no process control block
The phrase is borrowed. “Context switch” comes from the operating system, where it names the moment the CPU stops running one process and …
interest, not a toll
Every model of context switching I’ve read charges a toll. You switch, you pay: a few hundred milliseconds in the lab, some number of minutes in …
human multi-tenancy
In 2022 I coined hyper multitasking and left it at one line. Let me try again with a better word. Software has a term for one system serving many …
one window at a time
The interruption at your desk is not disrespect. To them, a computer is one window doing one thing.
I Email, Therefore I Work
The sent folder proves motion, not work. A tool that disappears rewrites what you are allowed to think.
culture as code.
Simply put, AWS is adopted by a company, not the IT department. DevOps, CI, Cloud… all for business. The depth of the cultural adoption will …