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~zampano

That's awesome news! I look forward to hearing how it goes. It'll certainly be a challenge, I'm sure, but hopefully a rewarding one. You'll get to be that one teacher that someone says changed their life one day.

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

There will definitely be that, having seen my wife experience it many times in public.

I also believe it'll seem a "more real" pace. Sure, there'll be a couple dozen kids in a glass, implying much potential for juggling. But things will be happening at real world speeds. Assuming I can get them to talk one at a time, the transmission wherewithal evolved (or was created) to not deliver much more than typical reception wherewithal evolved (or was created) to take in, no doubt accounting for time needed to digest. That's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay different than the speed of what happens when even just a single modern web page loads - some actual content (when you're lucky...) surrounded (accosted?) by popups, sudden page element movement (e.g. some Javascript removing/adding/relocating elements), the ever-present "Accept our cookies, or (I swear it's implied..) else!", audio/video advertising coming and going, etc.

That situation seems a bit like using several dozen jackhammers to pound in what needs to enter at biological, hand-turned *screw* pace to begin with.

I mean... I'm already feeling touches of stressful hysteria just having described it.....

Okay. I forgot where I was going with this. :-)

Oh yeah. The pace.

Something similar to the aforementioned madness occurs (for me, anyway) as a software developer in non-software-developer places, e.g. under management watch/scrutiny. The combination of feature and deadline expectations implies a biologically impossible development pace. Of *course* such haste will make waste, further compounding the downward spiral to bug-infested spaghetti code. Of *course*.

And yet we've somehow come to believe its working for us, frayed emotional circuitry leading unto smoke pouring out the back notwithstanding... or believe it's just a matter of yet another organization app - which invariably makes what used to be *just* 20 steps back for each step forward seem 30 steps back.