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“Software is a domain of mostly invisible knowledge work. It’s hard to see progress, quality …#
“Software is a domain of mostly invisible knowledge work. It’s hard to see progress, quality or risks in the way that you can with building bridges or running a factory. In that vacuum, simple narratives often fill the gap.”
https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-ca3ad1e612d8
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“Both of these functional concerns are vital, as in “you literally can’t survive without th…#
“Both of these functional concerns are vital, as in “you literally can’t survive without them”, and complementary. You need product developers to be focused on building features and products, caring deeply about the experience of each user, and looking for ways to add value to the business. You need operations to provide a resilient, scalable, efficient base for those products to run on.”
https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/bring-back-ops-pride
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“And yet, what Panton, Wilde, and May couldn’t anticipate was how technology would industrial…#
“And yet, what Panton, Wilde, and May couldn’t anticipate was how technology would industrialize conformity. Wilde saw people living as mimicry in 1891. May diagnosed conformity in the 1950s. Both described social pressure.”
https://om.co/2026/01/16/our-algorithmic-grey-beige-world/
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aka, the “Restoration Hardware Algorithm”