Taking a breather and trying to relax — next week will be either triumphant or a world of hurt, and exhausting either way. This was the calm before the storm. Except before we could even get to the storm, we had to make it through a gauntlet of gatekeepers. We’ve built a whole new software platform to replace a production system that is firmly entrenched, FDA-certified, and critically important to a billion-dollar company. No shortage of people needed to personally sign off on our launch, some of them quite adversarial and not without reason. Those approvals kept coming in right up to the hours before our target date. Our team’s managers fought those battles, but they needed documentation tailored to each gatekeeper, and producing that documentation is what I spent most of my week doing. As of right now, we are still go for launch. Read About a third of the way through Starter Villain. The setup is nearly complete and it just keeps getting more charmingly ridiculous as it goes. I’m…
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