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Infrastructure people don’t have main character energy but also don’t have side character energy Gonna call it orthogonal character energy
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Jim Hacker/Humphrey Appleby is a great example of a main character/infrastructure guy odd couple comedy where latter usually wins
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Sam Vimes/Vetinari is another Usually the American bias is to make infrastructure guy a by-the-book bureaucrat the hero must bypass to maverick the problem with a hero’s journey Often cast as a middle-aged woman instead of guy when the intent is to really make them bad
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I have prompt guy energy, which is close to sideshow Bob energy
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If you consider yourself a good infrastructure thinker and ops person, across different categories of systems and processes, what’s your top tip for being good at it? As low-level habit as possible. For eg “keep work spaces clean” or “inspect everything once a week”
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Forking an infrastructure guy joke thread
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Main character: “Yolo, let’s cut the blue wire!” Cuts wire, Red light starts blinking, alarm goes off. Countdown timer skips ahead from one hour to 30 seconds Infrastructure guy: “I have been preparing for this moment my whole life”
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All good examples I think orthogonal characters solve for statistical returns from a portfolio of hero’s journeys.
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Star Trek’s Scotty, Q from James Bond, and Merlin. They do seem to fit your orthogonal character. They all come across as being in their own story and the hero is only their side quest.
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Main characters write autobiographies Infrastructure people write memoirs That’s how you know what you are… based on what your story sounds like I’m neither
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I can easily find examples of B (put a man on the moon, defeat the Axis, tally the census) but I have trouble finding examples of A (the steam engine allowing to connect US east and west coasts by railroad, perhaps?)
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