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A temporal gateway sends you to a medieval village full of cold & death. You must use your knowledge to bring them steam power! You spend weeks laboriously drawing schematics with fragments of coal & build a wax mold, then travel afield collecting metal scraps. On return... their leader has burned the schematics & castings. "Thank you," he says sincerely, "this kept us warm while you were away!" #microfiction That's what it's like to be an experienced software developer in a VC startup.