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Date 2025-08-12
7 articles

Muses: inspired thinking for inspired action

Essays on technology, work, and judgment in the IT trade — the longer reads for when the ticket queue can wait a few minutes

Featured

The innovation paradox: stupid idea or breakthrough

Bad ideas and breakthrough ideas look identical the day they're proposed — here's how to tell them apart cheaply enough that being wrong doesn't hurt.

August 12, 2025 Amr Abdel-Motaleb
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The innovation paradox: stupid idea or breakthrough

Accounting

Agile

The circle of fix: how to escape the bug-rework loop

A frantic ensemble sings its way around the never-ending bug-fix-outsource-re...

Ai-engineering

Three is the magic number for automation that holds

Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...

Automation

Three is the magic number for automation that holds

Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...

Bash

Three is the magic number for automation that holds

Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...

work & play & dev &: job control for the sleep-deprived

You think your life runs `work && play && dev`. You actually try to run `work...

All Muses: inspired thinking for inspired action Articles

strategy
Best practice is the interest of the stronger

The rules you buy technology by were mostly written by the people selling it....

smb
Your best programmer thinks they're just good at Excel

The most fluent programmer in your company may have never opened a terminal. ...

automation
Three is the magic number for automation that holds

Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...

work-life-balance
work & play & dev &: job control for the sleep-deprived

You think your life runs `work && play && dev`. You actually try to run `work...

software-development
The circle of fix: how to escape the bug-rework loop

A frantic ensemble sings its way around the never-ending bug-fix-outsource-re...