A Platform for A Roadmap: Mixing Metaphors for Fun and Profit

eric sorenson // @ahpook sr technical product manager puppet

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Most of our ordinary conceptual system is metaphorical in nature. The primary function of metaphor is to provide a partial understanding of one kind of experience in terms of another kind of experience.

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As a consequence of our brains reaching for metaphors to come to grips with the world around us, we gain partial understanding of experiences, and which parts we grasp versus which parts elude us are determined by the metaphors we use.

IDEAS ARE OBJECTS

EXPRESSIONS ARE CONTAINERS

COMMUNICATION IS SENDING

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SOFTWARE IS LIKE A PLATFORM

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A platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product. ... The Golden Rule of Platforms, "Eat your own dogfood" can be rephrased as: "Start with a platform, then use it for everything".

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Abstraction decompose into smaller pieces

Inheritance extend components

without knowledge of their internals

Encapsulation restrict access to accessors and

mutators

Polymorphism many implementations,

same interface

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AUTOMATION IS LIKE A PUPPET

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FUTURE PLANS ARE LIKE A ROADMAP

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TIME IS AN OBJECT THAT MOVES TOWARDS US.

TIME IS STATIONARY, WE MOVE THROUGH IT TOWARD THE FUTURE.

FROM OUR POINT OF VIEW TIME GOES PAST US,

FROM FRONT TO BACK

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Photo Credits

Cover - Puppet photo

Nigel - from twitter https://twitter.com/sstatik/status/781537634845806592

Parallel evolution - https://www.britannica.com/science/parallel-evolution

Wood platform - http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/max-platform-wood/811201

ISS - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/ISS_Configuration_as_of_August_2016.svg

Kermit - http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/muppets-return-tv-screens-mockumentary-6658289

Swedish Chef - Youtube capture, alpha added https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv4htIk8tOU

Sesame street cast - http://www.today.com/popculture/sesame-street-fires-beloved-characters-bob-luis-gordon-after-45-t101247

Roadmap - Clark College Roadmap for Parents, cropped and alpha transparency added

Steve Yegge at oscon - youtube capture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8&t=14m7s

Sea monster - https://www.wired.com/2013/09/carta-marina/

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