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I Shipped, Therefore I Am
“Who are you and why are you here?” –Dave Cutler (DaveC)
Steven Sinofsky
Personal stories and lessons from inside the rise and fall of the PC revolution. Click to read Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Automating processes with software is hard
We have decades of experience trying to automate processes. My biggest lesson is that automation is not about the easy and known flow, but about exception handling.