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We Shipped a Feature Nobody Used for Eleven Months Because the Metric Loved It
The feature was a smart summary that sat at the top of the feed. It went out in March. By May, the dashboard showed engagement with it climbing steadily, week over week, in a curve that made everyo…
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Twenty-Two Vendors, Eighteen Weeks, and Four Percent of the Farm's Income
Our market runs Saturdays from May to September in the parking lot behind the Methodist church, twenty-two vendors in a good week. I have had a table there for nine years. It is the best morning of…
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The Software Was Right and the Line Was Down
The dashboard said the press was running at ninety-four percent utilisation. I was standing next to the press. It was not running.
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My Mother's Account of the Crossing Changed and I Do Not Think She Lied
My mother crossed in the winter of 1959, aged eleven, in a group that left from a village she has named the same way every time. Everything else about her account has moved.
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The Sensor Works and the Siren Is Two Kilometres From the Houses
The lake sits at about forty-seven hundred metres behind a moraine dam, and the monitoring installation on it is good. Water level, seismic, a camera, telemetry over satellite because there is no o…
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The Sign-Up Sheet Fills From the Top and the Top Is Two in the Afternoon
The conference sign-up goes out in October. Fifteen-minute slots, two o'clock to seven, two days. The early afternoon fills within about six hours of the link going live and the six o'clock slots g…
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The Textbooks Arrived in the Second Week of October
The session begins in April. The books for class seven arrived on the eleventh of October, in four bundles, on a tractor, and were signed for by the headmaster, who has a register for exactly this …
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The Job Openings Are Real and Nobody Is Being Hired
A friend of mine spent four months last year applying to a posting that had been live since the previous September. Same listing, same requisition number, reposted every thirty days. He was intervi…
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The Previous Reader Wrote No She Wouldn't in the Margin
I buy my copies secondhand, and not for the reason people assume, which is money; the reason is that a used book arrives with an argument already in progress. The copy of Middlemarch on my desk cos…
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