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s16e07: It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful

In this episode:

* Everyone gets emotional at work because you're a human, duh. Here's some stuff about _jealousy_

And my favorite line in the section about scale and automation:

> We've recognized one face, yes. But what about thirty billion faces?

https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s16e07-it-sounds-like-youre-jealous-scale/

s16e07: It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful

0.0 Context Setting It's Tuesday, the third of November, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I'm excited about the people who've booked a virtual coffee with me1, so...

Oct 3, 2023 at 7:29pmWeb
Show threadPatrick PfeiferOct 3, 2023
@danhon Dan, it's October! 😉 (Re: "It's Tuesday, the third of November ..."
Show threadDan HonOct 3, 2023
@PFiver goddamn
Show threadRobert AtkinsOct 3, 2023
@danhon I have long been saying #ScaleRuinsEverything (https://frabjousdei.net/post/183766282016/scale-ruins-everything) which is related but not quite the same thing you’re considering.
Scale ruins everything

I have been thinking about this for years but only recently came to a nice pithy expression of it, so I'm writing it up now. This is not to say everything gets worse when it gets slightly bigger, but...

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Show threadDan HonOct 3, 2023
@ratkins Yeah, I tweeted about it a lot in the past on the other place, didn't look them up