We were looking at the sequence, not the shape. - Robin Sloan

She was on her fifth espresso and seemed finally to have found her equilibrium.

It's always new and astonishing when it's yours. Infatuation; sex; card tricks.

At General Dexterity, I was contributing to an effort to make repetitive labor obsolete. After a trainer in the Task Acquisition Center taught an arm how to do something, all the arms did it perfectly, forever,

In other words, you solved a problem once, and then you moved on to other more interesting things.

Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and digested.

Thus, the problem was ongoing.

Thus, the problem was perhaps the point.