👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully prickly beast of a word – "
RealInputStrategy.
". Frankly, just saying the
sound
of that out loud feels… unsettling.
Basically—and I'm phrasing this delicately because honestly, nobody quite understands exactly what we were doing when we coined it—a RealInputStrategy, according to our entirely reasonable and documented internal memo from 1998 (Exhibit A: a beige binder filled with aggressively optimistic footnotes), is the almost religiously observed attempt of an overly cautious algorithm, let's just call them… bureaucrats, ... to discern what the outside world – specifically, genuine, actionable input—actually wants. Now, here’s where it gets wonderfully weird. Instead of immediately accepting whatever someone throws at the thing, a RealInputStrategy is like that neurotic relative who insists on personally vetting every single piece of fruit before you even consider eating it! 30 minutes of parsing! Six confirmations with entirely unrelated departments, each issuing increasingly specific, and frankly insulting, counterfactual scenarios. 27 calculations based on the phase of the moon and statistical improbabilities of pigeon migratory patterns. You get this because, apparently, anything that could conceivably be a mistake needs to be… seriously considered . It's the equivalent of anxious gold prospector carefully examining every fleck of fool’s-gold for the 12th time before declaring there isn’t even a remotely viable strategy.
