technology and its amazing consequences

Learning, all too often: The challenges of growing ambitious expectations in others - and suddenly being supposed to meet them. Limits tend to show up the very moment things get serious beyond that point of a possible return, as does the feeling of unease while throwing a lot of resources on certain issues. Past 3pm. Tuning mode. Slow steps on a foggy road.

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Nach Mittag und immer noch genügend dichtes Grau. Immer noch weitestgehend formlose Untätigkeit, als Luxus und Herausforderung gleichermaßen. Ferner: Sortieren, diesmal von digitalen Medien. Merkwürdige Erwägungen zum Sammeln und Vorhalten nicht greifbarer Bücher. Zur Halbwertszeit von Fachliteratur der eigenen Branche. Zur Geschwindigkeit, in der sich Dinge ändern, inklusive aller Folgen. Zu Nachhaltigkeit. Und zum Zuviel in vielen Bereichen.

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9am. In between again. Too: Looking closer sometimes reveals things for which it wouldn't hurt if they remained unseen. Restructuring task lists. Trying to get certain tools out of thoughts and processes, as much as possible. Watching the steady flow of data. Feeling numb, not always comfortably.

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10pm and on. Inhaling the night air, watching colours of the lights alternate near the crossroad. Distant traffic, a train outbound, music stopped a while ago. A Now, like for that machine: About to enter sleep mode but unable to, due to ever-incoming signals.

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9am and on, quite a bit. Measuring time and throughput, more than just once unable to make sense of the results unless there's a black box somewhere in between that randomly changes observed data in contradictory ways. Wouldn't be too much of a surprise - maybe everything's possible in terms of intangible logic and structures. (Writing code to trace flow through other, most likely buggy code. What could possibly go wrong?)

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