Brian Sholis

- "But to listen is to act; of that, there’s no doubt. It takes effort and doesn’t happen by default."

* “It’s lack of awareness to lossiness that dooms most conversations to miscommunication, not the lossiness itself.”

A profile of David Mills, an engineer who coded the Network Time Protocol that runs much of the internet. His methods, his code, are slowly be replaced by other ways of measuring and coordinating time, and this story does a good job of framing the personalities of those involved, the trade-offs, etc.

- “the focus of software services has shifted from manipulating data to manipulating workflows.”

- “In short, it’s the irreversible rise of entropy that makes timekeeping possible, while both periodicity and complexity enhance clock performance.”