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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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Wonder which is more true A: When the infrastructure is ready, the mission will emerge B: When the mission is clear, the infrastructure will emerge
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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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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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