Robert Brewer
manchufu.bsky.social
Robert Brewer
@manchufu.bsky.social
Principal Engineer, Computation at http://crunch.io.
I bring light to dark systems.
@fumanchu@fosstodon.org
Reposted by Robert Brewer
I have a wild theory that a lot of people are extremely hostile to any sign of systems thinking because it implicitly pushes the conversation to problem space from solution space.
January 18, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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When you accept a low-quality solution, it’s a strong sign that the work had no value in the first place.

This is the production equivalent of a meeting that could have been an email.
January 11, 2026 at 7:21 PM
But then I'm deeply fond of it
January 2, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Deep subject
January 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
December 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Just upgraded my pour-over coffee kit from "Amazon box" to "lunchpail"
December 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Surely it's the main ingredient in a Marco Cubio cocktail
December 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Negotiate harder! 😜
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
❤️ Peach Fog Cutter
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Unless it's a computer part and then it's called a "mebiinch'.
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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the other question is: why are we being asked to estimate the effort it takes to do something (hard, labour-intensive, unreliable) without any insight into what it's worth to the stakeholders?

if you know what the outcome of the effort is *worth*, estimating becomes super easy
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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like oh you have five path-dependent tasks you need to prioritize? congratulations, there is one correct sequence to do them in and 119 wrong ones
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am now designing a drink I will market as "+3 charisma"
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
And also:
* implement conservative logical-AND (missing if any input is missing--Kleene calls this "weak 3VL")
* implement optimistic logical-OR (keep missing only if all are missing)

Not all logic is propositional, especially in ternary and higher logic.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
They thertainly liketh their th's.
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
as*
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 AM