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.

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.

But then I'm deeply fond of it

Deep subject

Just upgraded my pour-over coffee kit from "Amazon box" to "lunchpail"

Surely it's the main ingredient in a Marco Cubio cocktail

Negotiate harder! 😜

❤️ Peach Fog Cutter

Unless it's a computer part and then it's called a "mebiinch'.

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

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

I am now designing a drink I will market as "+3 charisma"

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.

They thertainly liketh their th's.

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