People are Computers

There are a lot of analogies between people in a team setting, and computers. Calling out some of these analogies helps tremendously when it comes to scaling a team.

• raw intelligence <> chip processor clock frequency (and turbo when drinking coffee)
• learning-based skill-up <> advanced instruction set / specialization
• unblocking each other <> embarrassingly parallel patterns / minimizing work in the critical region / indirection / atomicity
• work prioritization <> priority queue / nice values
• work validation and feedback loops <> compile-time type checking / schema validation / fail-fast design
• work planning around existing interfaces/checkpoints & migration <> compiler optimization upholding invariants / pipeline parallelism

WIP