The End of the Software Gestation Table 🧵

In "Software 2.0," we were agriculturalists. We’d get a task—a refactor, a new UI—and instinctively size up the Gestation Period.

Every project had its "Appointed Hour" before it could be born into the world. We sized our work by a biological clock:

🐣 Chicken (21 days): A bug fix.
🐑 Lamb (5 mos): A new feature.
👶 Human (9 mos): A product launch.
🐘 Elephant (2 yrs): That legacy migration everyone fears.

We accepted the delay as the natural order of things.