You're alone in a quiet room when the concept hits: you've been defending a dead project because of what you already spent, not what you'll gain. The recognition restructures your decision. Three months later someone deploys that same concept in a meeting to diagnose someone else's error. The project continues anyway. A concept like "sunk … Continue reading The Functional Migration Problem
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Marriages Are Selected on Tuesdays
It is a Tuesday in November. One person loads the dishwasher wrong again. The other notices and says nothing. This is the data point that matters — not the first date, not the proposal, not the rehearsed charm over cocktails. Marriages are selected on Tuesdays. A thought experiment circulating online asks married people to reverse-engineer … Continue reading Marriages Are Selected on Tuesdays
