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Sorry I just don't understand the article. Can anyone rephrase?

The main point of the article appears to be:

> You always have to design both “the product” your customers want and “the environment” in which your product will run in production. Thus any software product begins with two obvious categories of “work to be done.” People ignore this because it seems [counterintuitive.][going_there]

Hey you saved everyone a click!

I am the author of the post and I approve this summary :)

Your blog archive (where the title links to) seems to be broken.

Weird it just worked fine for me. http://infiniteundo.com/archive/filter-by/text

Oh, don't mind. My network connection was the one that had a problem.

I think I took the metaphor more to heart than others. I like to think of myself as a good storyteller. I can explain pretty in depth computer science topics to my business team who lack technical knowledge pretty well through stories. My problem seems to be translating this to software structures.

I wish I could be as good of a "writer" in my software, but I am always looking to others for the best practices. In this case, I am always in a constant state of doubt and "writers block", I need to figure out how to unleash my own creativity.

what does [counterintuitive.][going_there] mean?

Based on the other usages in the article, it looks like some kind of link syntax like in markdown or wikitext, but it isn't being parsed/replaced. If so, then it just means "counterintuitive."

LOL I am the author and I didn't know what that comment meant when I saw it above!! Derp and I will go fix my broken links now :) Thanks for the heads up!

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