Isn't it funny that Canadians can tend to measure distance in the amount of time it takes to travel there. But it's an interesting way to measure.
I think we've been coming to understand wage disparity, but the size of companies is bigger today than it has ever been.
This is possible because of things like the Internet, where communicating and moving data over great distances is now possible with tremendous efficiency.
From my house, it's <40 milliseconds to Tokyo.
@svetzal We're equating distance with the experience of its crossing. It's more socially accessible I find vs. a number like Km, including people too young to drive. It might come from not having a car identity, having less access to car ownership, and valuing our time better?
Like who cares if something is 350 or 600km. I want to know if I'll lose half a day or a whole day to it.
Or maybe it's because we're used to slow speed limits, so again time is more important.
@ellabellafull such a powerful thought - interpreting and measuring something by its experience.
Like, who cares if 97% of our lines of code are executed during our automated testing, unless our users' experience with the system is pleasant.
Folks talk about the map vs the terrain, but what about the map vs the experience?
@svetzal Quote of the decade:
"As long as IT organizations remain a cost to produce a feature, reduction of that cost is direct action against the soul of the experience that might have been."
Chef's kiss! ❤️
@ellabellafull I use Cutler's mandate levels a lot when I'm framing things like this - if the people that "built it" were just programming by remote control, following someone else's instructions, it's gonna be soulless.
Is destroying the soul of an interaction really the best that we feel we can muster "at scale" ?
As long as IT organizations remain a cost to produce a feature, reduction of that cost is direct action against the soul of the experience that might have been.