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A reader asked what day one looks like. This is all of it.
4 hrs ago
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Tim Irving
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June 2026
Minus Two Minutes
Our best work files itself as nothing.
Jun 29
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Tim Irving
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The Quiet Quarter
The most dangerous number on the dashboard is the one going down.
Jun 22
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Tim Irving
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Have You Tried
Turning it off and on again, the folk remedy that holds up the modern world.
Jun 17
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Tim Irving
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Watermelon
Every metric was green. Nothing was fine.
Jun 15
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Tim Irving
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Better for Having Been Broken
On gold, broken bowls, and the incident reports nobody reopens.
Jun 1
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Tim Irving
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May 2026
Build It Stupid
Every screen in the building went red at once. What saved us was a plan almost too simple to admit to.
May 28
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Tim Irving
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The Glue Held
Eric Schmidt told a Stanford class he didn't need the glue people. The receipts on what happened next are public.
May 25
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Tim Irving
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The Mediocre Live Forever
A practitioner's note on building, shipping, and leaving an AI tool that wrote post-incident reviews.
May 18
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Tim Irving
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Etiquette for the Burning Building
They look like manners. They are not.
May 14
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Tim Irving
The Room and the Patient
On incident commanders, operating theatres, and the discipline we have not built.
May 11
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Tim Irving
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Offerings
Field notes from the server room
May 4
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Tim Irving
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