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Date 2025-08-12
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Muses: inspired thinking for inspired action

Essays on technology, work, and judgment in the IT trade — the longer reads for when the ticket queue can wait a few minutes

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The innovation paradox: stupid idea or breakthrough

Bad ideas and breakthrough ideas look identical the day they're proposed — here's how to tell them apart cheaply enough that being wrong doesn't hurt.

August 12, 2025 Amr Abdel-Motaleb
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The innovation paradox: stupid idea or breakthrough

Accounting

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The circle of fix: how to escape the bug-rework loop

A frantic ensemble sings its way around the never-ending bug-fix-outsource-re...

Ai-engineering

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Three is the magic number for automation that holds

Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...

Automation

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Three is the magic number for automation that holds

Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...

Three is the magic number for automation that holds

Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...

work & play & dev &: job control for the sleep-deprived

You think your life runs `work && play && dev`. You actually try to run `work...

All Muses: inspired thinking for inspired action Articles

automation
Three is the magic number for automation that holds

Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...

work-life-balance
work & play & dev &: job control for the sleep-deprived

You think your life runs `work && play && dev`. You actually try to run `work...

software-development
The circle of fix: how to escape the bug-rework loop

A frantic ensemble sings its way around the never-ending bug-fix-outsource-re...