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One of the superpowers of the most effective programmers must be *not* travelling down a meandering hole of upgrading all code possibly tangentially related to the thing they are working on.

I have not mastered this.
* Writing a blog post.
* Blog post references a tweet storm of mine.
* "Might as well send people to my site, not Twitter. Let's figure out how to archive tweetstorms."
* "Oh wait, sometimes the tweetstorms comment on other people's tweets... just embed those."
* "You know, now that you're downloading all your tweets, you should really have a way to download all your HN comments."
* "Oh you did, but it's in a gist and the code quality is terrible. Let's upgrade that."
* "Good, now that that is working, let's fully automate /wc update."
Alrighty then, so, blog post tomorrow. Probably.
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Put Liam (2) on a pony at the park and I guess I looked transparently worried.

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So a fun, happy story about things that could never have happened even twenty years ago:
I have a friend from church in Japan. He’s from Benin, and has worked in a series of factories as a QA engineer.

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This is the largest reason why software companies, specifically, under invest in it for so long, and is a very useful thing to understand and be able to stage manage if you either run a software company, work in one, or selling marketing-shaped services to them.
Nothing to be ashamed of! New competencies are new competencies; there was a learning curve every time you’ve ever gotten good with something.
The failure mode for software companies is “Hmm, we got these results without marketing (or sales, etc); guess marketing is nonsense and if we were to waste time implementing it that would either not improve or actively damage our results.”

That’s disastrously false.
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