Description
Abstractions rule everything around us. JD Long talks about abstractions from the board room to the silicon.
Over 20 years ago Joel Spolsky famously wrote, "All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky." Unsurprisingly this has not changed. However, we have introduced more and more layers of abstraction into our workflows: Virtual Machines, AWS services, WASM, Docker, R, Python, data frames, and on and on. But then on top of the computational abstractions we have people abstractions: managers, colleagues, executives, stakeholders, etc.
JD's presentation will be a wild romp through the mental models of abstractions and discuss how we, as technical analytical types, can gain skill in traversing abstractions and dealing with leaks.
Materials: https://github.com/CerebralMastication/Presentations/tree/master/2023_posit-conf