Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like, such as reading to your little boy, or showing him a thing you love, or singing him a song, or putting on his shoes keeps the devil down in the hole. — Nick Cave
*“One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'" –* Marie Howe
Cool thing about pendulums: The time it takes for one to swing forward and backward—the period—won’t change, no matter how wide it swings. If it’s got a lot of energy, it’ll swing farther and faster, but the period will still be the same. This is what mechanical clocks take advantage of to keep time. That period ends up being driven by two things, and two things only: the length of the pendulum and gravity.
Legacy code is often defined as "code that makes more design decisions than the team working on it". Could we define a legacy process as "one that makes more decisions on how a team functions than the team itself"?
In 1966, the economist Raymond Vernon outlined the five stages of any important product’s life cycle: introduction, growth, maturity, saturation, and decline. During the first three stages, production is clustered near where the product was invented. By the time a product enters the latter two stages, it is almost always produced elsewhere or supplanted by technological change.
