in your own image
Software is the only medium we have ever had in which dissolving a burden is cheap. A burden goes in, the task stops being anybody’s job, and the work still happens nightly in a process nobody watches.
the solvent that is not consumed
Part two of four in “into solution,” on what software does to a problem when you take the word literally. Each part stands alone. “Software is …
also: how to audit an argument you didn't make · prove it with the code · before it meant an answer
one beep, ten microphones
Someone in the house heard a beep a little before 12:13 AM and wanted to know what it was. I handed the question to an agent with access to the camera recorder. …
also: run the full test suite · Where the Sandbox Ends · the sandbox and the wall
the multi-organization problem
Ten years of short posts were circling one object: a person who belongs to many organizations at once, with tools that assume one and methods that assume a task. Here is the theory in one place, what three fields and forty years of software actually know about it, whether anyone has solved it, and what a solution needs.
also: the room that forgot what it was for · eleven minutes and four seconds · a root to stand on
three games to sell one
Entry three of three in “the dimension problem.” Part one builds the vocabulary; part two runs it against the remake business. This one spends all …
also: the unremade · the dimension is the genre · the strong start on sunday
The Convergence Tax
When competitors independently arrive at the same abstractions, the abstraction is telling you something about the territory — not the map.
also: The Gigawatt Problem
