Nails

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Nails tonight was very good. I'm am posting drunk. I feel a lot more sober than I must actually be.

Even sharing my vodka I must have drunk at least 150 mills, which is a lot at the end of a long week.

The week was a bit tricksy, I am very involved in trying to stop a four team design process from derailing. I'm about half way through my bag of tricks which isn't very good.

The process really wants to derail, I've got one guy calling another guy an idiot in email and that guy getting all defensive about his ideas which are only in draft.

My own involvement means that this issue has ground its way to the critical path for my project and that I'm expected to resolve it as quickly as can be, to keep in favour with the three other teams and to find a solution that actually does something that my end customers care about.

The approach is to design my ass off all around the solution space, to talk with lots of people independently about what their parts of the solution space can look like and to smooth egos in design meetings. At some point some connect the points paths should become apparent to me and then I can guide all parties towards the closest one.

Lets just say this isn't programming like they taught me at university.