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software can at the very best make pretty pictures on a screen somewhere.

The solution we have for that in the commercial software world is really big screens.



And report graphs. Lots of report graphs. Oh, look, a real-time dashboard. Do the metrics its tracking mean anything to anybody that is reading it? Who cares?

This seems to be one of the main ways salesmen and execs communicate over enterprise software deals.


Amusing aside: Whenever I see anybody mention a "dashboard" in business, I'm reminded of the kiddie toy for long car trips, that has a brightly colored steering wheel, several interesting levers and knobs, a mirror, etc. The idea is that the tykes can pretend that they're driving.




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