{"id":934,"date":"2026-04-23T23:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:52:22","slug":"you-are-a-decimal-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/2026\/04\/you-are-a-decimal-point\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are a Decimal Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You walk into a store. The price tag makes no sense. &#8220;Who\u2019s paying for this?!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not you. The store did the math. They figured out they don&#8217;t need you. They don&#8217;t need ten of you. They need one of a different customer who pays sticker and doesn&#8217;t blink.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote an essay about how this same dynamic is playing out across the entire hardware market and most people haven&#8217;t noticed. About what happens when data center equipment comes off cycle in three to five years. And about why even a flood of cheap enterprise surplus might not help you, because the consumer operating system is being redesigned to lock you out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years of pattern recognition on this one.<\/p>\n<p>(Read, <a href=\"\/realstuff\/essays\/you_are_a_decimal_point\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Room Where It Gets Built &#8212; Essay #6: You Are a Decimal Point<\/a>)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/realstuff\/essays\/you_are_a_decimal_point\/hero.png\" width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You walk into a store. The price tag makes no sense. &#8220;Who\u2019s paying for this?!?&#8221; Not you. The store did the math. They figured out they don&#8217;t need you. They don&#8217;t need ten of you. They need one of a different customer who pays sticker and doesn&#8217;t blink. I wrote an essay about how this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[224,221],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin","tag-enterprise-it","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}