Unworkable Ideas

A Microcosm of the Uncorrupted Internet

Finite, Not Finite

Coping with the infinite magnitude of it all.

The Great SaaS-Lighting: How IT Users Got Gaslit

But that’s not quite the way it worked out, is it? Maybe they meant it when they said it, but…

The Ridiculous Blog

Hundreds of posts on a topic that apparently no one gives a fuck about. It is only the most important…

Noise Plus Interruption Doesn’t Equal Information Management

The formula for effective information management is a little more nuanced than that. Survival in the real world often requires…

Optimization Ruins Everything

Optimize this process, optimize that. Optimize for X.  Sometimes it is just a waste of brain power and energy.  It…

The Most Unworkable Idea of All: Centralized Control

On the surface, centralized control makes all the sense in the universe. Unfortunately, the universe has an infinite amount of…