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📸 Got to say we do see some good sunsets from time to time - but this one …🤯 … never seen anything like it from this balcony.

A lush landscape filled with various trees is set against a vibrant sunset sky. A vibrant sunset sky with rich orange and red hues is silhouetted by the outlines of trees. A vibrant sunset with orange and pink hues illuminates the sky above a silhouette of trees and hills. A vibrant sunset sky glows in shades of orange and red above silhouetted trees and a distant coastline. Silhouetted palm trees stand against a vivid red and orange sunset sky. A dramatic sky is filled with pink and purple clouds at dusk. A vibrant orange sunset sky is silhouetting palm trees with a body of water in the background. A vibrant sunset sky features shades of pink, orange, and purple above silhouetted trees. A vibrant sunset sky displays a mix of pink, orange, and purple hues over a silhouette of trees and distant hills. A vibrant, colorful sky displays hues of orange, pink, and purple during sunset. A vivid sunset sky displays a gradient of orange and pink hues over a silhouetted landscape with trees. A vibrant sunset paints the sky with shades of orange and pink above a silhouetted landscape of trees. A vibrant orange sunset sky illuminates the silhouetted tropical trees below. A vibrant sky is filled with soft hues of pink, purple, and orange clouds during sunset. A stunning sunset paints the sky with vibrant hues of orange and pink above a silhouetted landscape. A vibrant sunset sky with shades of orange and red above silhouetted trees and a distant shoreline. A vibrant sunset sky with shades of pink and orange is silhouetted by trees and a palm. A vibrant sunset sky with orange and purple hues stretches above silhouetted trees and a distant hillside. A vibrant sunset fills the sky with pink and orange clouds above silhouetted trees. A vibrant sunset sky displays hues of orange, pink, and purple above a silhouetted landscape with trees. A vibrant sunset paints the sky with warm hues of orange, pink, and purple above a silhouette of trees. A colorful sky at sunset displays vibrant pink and orange clouds over a silhouetted landscape. A vibrant sunset paints the sky in shades of orange and purple, silhouetting trees and hills against the colorful horizon. A vibrant sunset sky features a mix of orange, pink, and purple hues with silhouetted trees in the foreground.

🔗 The Moon was Never the Point - Gapingvoid

it takes almost the same amount of time and energy to manage tiny projects as it does to manage massive projects

Like for like I would argue that there is some kind of normal distribution curve at play here … where Gapingvoid’s conclusion is correct in the centre - but wrong at the extremes.

5 - 50 and 500,000 are not ‘specific’.

Managing ‘5’ mini projects is easier than one project that encompasses those ‘5’ mini projects.

Managing ‘50’ mini projects is harder than one project that encompasses those ‘50’ mini projects.

Managing ‘500,000’ mini projects is easier than one project that encompasses those ‘500,000’ mini projects.

I should come back to this with more detail - lets see what the cognoscenti has to say … nothing - as usual - would be my guess.

🔗 Attention and effort

Attention and trust continue their dance, and our choices determine how we’ll show up in the marketplace. Burning trust to get attention rarely pays off.

💬 Seth Godin

🔗 Steve Blank - Nowhere Is Safe

The problem is a lack of urgency and imagination.

Oceans on both sides and friendly nations on our borders have lulled America into a false sense of security. After all, the U.S. has not fought a foreign force on American soil since 1812.

Unless you have been asleep at the wheel, living under a rock or only born yesterday - you know this graphic.

3*3 Sandwich Matrix

You might not know this one

The Matrix as a cube

Then again it would not surprise me at all if I have it backwards - and it is I that resides under said rock ( 🖇️ it happens a lot ) … by not recognising the ‘cube matrix’.

This all came to mind when I was chatting with Andrew Mayfield a couple of weeks ago who at one point in the conversation compared software to sandwiches - in someways redefining SAAS❓

Software As A Sandwich

.. he said 🔗 and then wrote about in a post. It’s a good post .. and very true - but my next job was to merge these two ideas - because as we all know 🖇️ Life Is A Remix.

First Job - define the three by three grid and decide on the axes.

Where I am so far …

Software As A Sandwich

And of course were I to classify what kind of ‘sandwich’ drove the development of this particular graphic - I would say ‘The Garden’.

It is clearly not right - but neither is it wrong. I will continue to noodle and welcome any and all insights and contributions.

BTW - it was writing this post that brought up 🖇️ this joke - because I have this thought that ‘the demo’ industry will benefit enormously from vibe coding.

The software and products we are building definitely utilises AI - but the AI is being managed by real developers. Unlike say my web site at 🖇️ Philpin.com - which is all me vibing with Claude and is way better than I have ever achieved in the past using Wordpress - but even before being finished it is on its third iteration as I learn and unpack what Claude is actually doing when left to its own devices.

Bottom line - it clearly believes that more lines of code than less is the metric!

In writing another post (coming soon), this joke from the mid 90s came to mind. It starts …

Gates dies in a car accident. He finds himself in purgatory, being sized up by St. Peter.

“Well, Bill, I’m really confused on this call; I’m not sure where to send you. After all, you helped society enormously by putting a computer in almost every home in America, yet you also created that ghastly Windows ‘95. I’m going to do something I’ve never done before. In your case; I’m going to let you decide whether you want to go to Heaven or Hell.”

🔗 The Whole Story

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