When I’m working on a software project, I notice that much of the effort consists of finding ways for different parts of the project to communicate with one another. Once I’ve got this thing working, and that thing working, I then need to get them to talk to one another.
So much of the time I am actually constructing little translators. It’s kind of like trying to give people an easy way to cross a world that consists of many tiny islands. You end up building lots and lots of bridges.
I guess there are worse things to spend your time on than building bridges of communication. As metaphors go, this one seems pretty life affirming.