Germany 7, Brazil 1.
I watched a World Cup semifinal, in Brazil, against Brazil, become 5-0 in under thirty minutes. The German engineer went from celebrating to apologizing somewhere around goal four. The office whiteboard bracket just has “7-1” written across it now in red marker. Nobody has updated anything else. What is there to update.
I keep thinking about it in systems terms, because that’s apparently who I am now. Brazil didn’t lose to one failure, they cascaded. Lost their star to injury, lost their captain to cards, conceded once, and then every part of the system tried to compensate at once and made everything worse. Retry storm. No circuit breaker. Total collapse in front of 200 million users.
In actual work news: the renewal’s six new hires started, I’m running onboarding, and my “everything that confused me on day one” list from March is now an actual onboarding doc with a table of contents. Documentation is just empathy with version control.
TIL: Argentina-Netherlands went to penalties (0-0, the anti-7-1) and penalty shootouts are just chaos engineering for humans.
Final is Sunday. Germany vs Messi.