Fubaredness Is Contagious

I once logged in to LinkedIn to reply to an inMail, and on their front page noticed several tweets from people with whom I am both connected on LinkedIn and whom I follow on Twitter. These were the same tweets that I just read in Tweetdeck – and I ended up reading them twice! This [...]

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I have recently noticed that costs were no longer always touted as the main driver for cloud computing – some have been advocating agility as the primary reason (for example, see here). It’s one thing when this theme gets mentioned in a talk at a technology conference where a company is sharing their experiences. But [...]

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… And it’s not only because it’s often cheaper to own or use, but also because it raises the bar for every single piece of proprietary software – they no longer can get away with poor user interface or limited features like they used to. Proprietary software now has to beat and exceed open source [...]

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Today I would like to continue my never ending quest of finding parallels between IT and economics and social sciences. I will start with a preamble, but if you are already familiar with a concept of “operations alert” in context of IT, you can skip it.
Preamble
I have spent a big part of my career in [...]

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What we in IT call a “bad state” (as in “application ended up in a bad state and needed to be restared”) in economics is called “bad equilibrium.” Here is more on General Equilibrium theory.

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