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Good architecture is built incrementally, but **not** designed incrementally. The [active-active, sharded architecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8NWDHgWA28) that powers Shopify today was drawn on a whiteboard in 2014 (not designed incrementally), and it took ~6 years to fully materialize, with a major customer-facing milestone every year (built incrementally). We would’ve hit a local maxima if we had not intentionally spelled this out.
The Napkin Math Methodology for System Design
sirupsen.com
But the [hyperobject](https://substack.com/redirect/5f4bf7ff-06aa-4a51-b200-4e45aa670727?j=eyJ1IjoiMXlmdTFqIn0.qYv5NVQwodvs9yAW1b9IqXxz-UTiPAUp4JXaRMXUArU) that is climate change requires the very kind of deliberative and slow thinking that my (perceptive, nearly-graduated) engineering students require and deserve. The kind of thinking-in-writing they don’t seem to know is out there—a fact that is equally alarming—but that they really are hungry for.
Resources for Climate Nihilism
Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
The takeaway here is that any analysis we do at a given point in time is just a *photograph* reflecting that moment’s reality. The farther we get from that point, the less relevant it will seem. **Unlike diamonds, Kano categories are not forever**.
The Complete Guide to the Kano Model
Folding Burritos
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