{"id":2667,"date":"2018-05-24T01:21:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T06:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2018-05-12T09:26:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T14:26:33","slug":"the-livelihood-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/05\/the-livelihood-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"The Livelihood Provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>When building and maintaining a system, the fundamental question is, &#8220;Whom am I trying to please?&#8221; This post offers a different answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>User, Customer, Manager, Boss? What do I call the person I am trying to please when building or maintaining a system? Whom am I trying to please?<\/p>\n<p>Here is a suggestion: The Livelihood Provider<\/p>\n<p>If we don\u2019t please that person, we lose our paycheck, our livelihood. The Livelihood Provider may not pay a cent, but somehow, through the magic of virtualized virtually virtual worlds\u2026if we don\u2019t please that person, we have no pay, no livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>I am the Livelihood Provider for all those folks at Google. Same for the folks at Facebook. If I am not pleased, they lose their livelihood. I suppose I am pretty important.<\/p>\n<p>Who is pretty important for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips When building and maintaining a system, the fundamental question is, &#8220;Whom am I trying to please?&#8221; This post offers a different answer. User, Customer, Manager, Boss? What do I call the person I am trying to please when building or maintaining a system? Whom am I trying to please? Here is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,314,67],"tags":[252,315,187],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer","category-user","category-work","tag-customer","tag-user","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}