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In praise of the deadline

What feels like a preference is often just a default nobody questioned.

By Alina Petrova9 Feb 20267 min read

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A short history of the queue

A small decision, repeated daily, is a life. Nobody designs it that way.

By Alina Petrova27 Mar 202510 min read

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