9am and on. Stories of needles, haystacks, the costs of premature optimization and the issues of understanding bottlenecks way down the road. The slowness, intended and unintended. And the tedious task of handling different threads of communication with different players, using slightly different languages, different sets of information, different levels of detail - and a slightly different balance between optimism and realism. (Torn between digging deep and searching wide, too, and risking running in circles as an outcome.)