Software Drives People Insane

An essay on The Gospel According to Graybeard sets out a pet theory: software drives people insane. It combines speed, money, complexity, abstraction and almost unlimited freedom to change your mind, with very little friction between an idea and its implementation, so everything becomes urgent and organisations surrounded by levers start pulling them. The essay's answer is proportion, with a reminder that most software "is still just a glorified spreadsheet".

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