Strolling through my suburban neighborhood is a pleasant experience. The air is clean, friendly-looking people walk their dogs, the fall trees are changing, lawns are clean. Perfect. At least that’s how I felt the first half-dozen times. Though pretty soon it still seemed very nice, but perhaps a bit predictable. Everything was kinda standard, there…

Turn hard problems into easy problems, and solve easy problems. This is a quote I use a lot. I think it’s a quote that seems brilliant when you already understand it, and seems confusing at best when you don’t (and the people who already understand it weren’t the ones who needed to hear it). So…

Definition: The problem that technologies tend to do overlapping chunks of a process but do not interoperate. Tool 1 does ABC (competitor tool also does ABC but uses YAML and stateless philosophy)Tool 2 does BCD (competitor tool also does BCD, but has a preferable UI, but no role-based permissioning)Tool 3 does CDE (competitor tool also…