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    "excerpt": "The hard part of writing software has never been the writing. It was building a working model of the domain in your head first. Before you could ship a payroll system you had to understand garnishments and pre-tax deductions and what happens when someone\u2019s pay period straddles a rate change. Before you could ship a transit app you had to learn what a GTFS feed is, why a trip and a route aren\u2019t the same thing, and how a bus that\u2019s \u201con time\u201d can still be wrong. The code was a transcription of that understanding. Acquiring the understanding was the job.",
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    "title": "Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat"
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