I started off seven years ago wondering why backlogs were so bad. It seemed like both small teams and large organizations always suck at them. I had read tons o

I started off seven years ago wondering why backlogs were so bad. It seemed like both small teams and large organizations always suck at them. I had read tons of how-to books and watched lots of videos. Many of the instructions conflicted with one another, however. What I wanted to know was why, not how-to. If I understood the why I wouldn't need the how-to. Being a good hacker, I pulled at that thread until I had another, and another. Now I'm writing about semiotics, language, lambda calculus, and philosophy of science stuff. It's all related to my original quest for a better explanation, and it affects everything from AI to coding practices. I'm about done now. Now the trick will be getting it all in a format that's consumable by the average programmer.