This past week I was working in California. The more networked devices people have, the more they tend to take interrupts from someone remote. I notice it in California because I’m an asynchronous old fogie. Tim goes to middle school next year. He’d probably see my colleagues as only weakly connected.

Paraphrasing Dana, people now find it normal to give a network interrupt priority over almost anything happening locally. To an off-the-Myers-Briggs-scale introvert-intuitive like me that seems like a silly policy. Innovation happens elsewhere, because mutations are rare. Yet most mutations are just errors.

Prioritizing network interruptions is a bit like reading blogs. You have to go through quite a bit before you get to something worthwhile. Many people already seem to be near their denial of service levels.