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Daffy-duck voice: time-horizon trouble https://youtu.be/XlzCPxxp8Ys?feature=shared#
Daffy-duck voice: time-horizon trouble
https://youtu.be/XlzCPxxp8Ys?feature=shared
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Have you ever worked on a project that used a real PERT chart (<https://www.thewave.engineer/arti…#
Have you ever worked on a project that used a real PERT chart (https://www.thewave.engineer/articles.html/productivity/the-birth-of-modern-project-management-the-polaris-program-and-the-inception-of-pert-r982/) to guide decision making and execution?
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The problem is that the organization didn’t create an environment where those departed people c…#
The problem is that the organization didn’t create an environment where those departed people chose to stay and were rewarded for mentoring the next generation. What is the average job tenure for new entrants? Do they see huge comp bumps for “understanding” or for dive-and-save offers?
“The problem is that nobody left remembers why the batch job must run in that exact order on the last business day of the month. What died was not the language. It was the context. The decisions. The scar tissue.”
https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/07/07/ai-native-developers-gatekeeper-generation/
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Simulations are a great tool. “Adjusting the correlated slider lets you see how severe interde…#
Simulations are a great tool.
“Adjusting the correlated slider lets you see how severe interdependence can be. The takeaway is, we can engineer around an independent tail (retry it, hedge it), but we have to design around a correlated one (remove the shared dependency, spread the load).“
https://dehora.net/journal/2026/7/tail-scale