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Paul Cantrell

You have a business problem.

You try to solve it with software.

Now you have 32,768 problems.

The number of problems is rising fast, and all the problems have problems. All you can see is problems. You have forgotten what your original problem was. You have forgotten what your business does. You have forgotten your own name. Now you are a software company. Time is not a flat line; it is a hall of mirrors, and all you can see is the endless infinity of your own hubris, your own human fallibility, now reified, grown mighty, and turned upon you, devouring all.

Time to build more software.

@inthehands if you keep it up eventually you will end up with -2,147,483,647 problems, never give up

@inthehands or do you have -32,767 <dun dun duuunnnnn>

@rgm
“We have only one hope now: to build more software as fast as we can, and exacerbate the situation until the issue count overflows.”

“It’s…it’s so crazy it just might work!!”

@inthehands huh can't believe I never considered this as a solution for driving any arbitrary bad KPI down off the bottom of a descending sort

@inthehands

Yeah but they are better problems than my old problems.

@Dseitz
Well, maybe — or if not, at least what your problems lack in quality they make up in quantity

@inthehands

I guess it depends on whether I subdivided the old problem or by solving the old problem I freed up resources to cause problems elsewhere.

@inthehands

If I upgrade the quality of my problems on a rapid release schedule they will eventually become Good Problems To Have or GPTH.

It's 1) People, 2) Process, and 3) Technology for a reason

@inthehands

@EvieAlways yup, and (1) is already well over half of those problems

@mypalmike
Ha, yeah, should’ve said 65,535. Really failed to set you up for that joke!

@inthehands to be fair, the problems probably go from -32767 to +32767, and there’s a chance they might cancel out.