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Field notes2010-12-15 · Archive

If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming

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“instead went to week-by-week meetings with clients and billing on the same basis, so neither ran away with misunderstandings or too great sunk costs. …”

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If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming

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