The instant you use a metaphor or example from software engineering in your writing, your total addressable market gets 10-100 times smaller
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If it survives the withering fire of legions of knee-jerk skeptics and contrarians
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It’s how Ethernet works… fastest leveraged way to send packets… if they survive collision me 🤣
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Glad 1 person got my joke. 10-100 people would have gotten the joke if I’d used a traffic metaphor 😢
It’s actually the core metaphor in chapter 5 of my book, which will clearly be bought by like 10 people at the rate I’m shoving CS metaphors in there 😆
It’s a less contrived fit there though
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