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Apr 27, 2022
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When I worked on the Mail team, everyone in Software Engineering was “compelled” to use Mail as a way to help work out bugs in the early days of Mac OS X (now macOS). Some of the higher-ups in other organizations also were also using it.

Stripes!

Part of the deal for participating in this scary experiment was that if people encountered problems, I would immediately show up in their office and provide technical support to them. Not only did I meet virtually everyone on the Mac OS X team, but I also got to meet many of the directors, VPs, and executives.

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