@tef fond memories of supporting a social care CRM

> this person lived in Greendale in 2017
BZZZT WRONG [OverlapException], as of 2021 they live in Camberwick Green

> can I tell you this person lived in Greendale from 2017-2021
NO FUCK OFF

> this person never lived in Camberwick Green
OK

> this person lived in Greendale as of 2017
OK

> this person moved to... fuck... Camberwell in 2021
OK

> does it matter that we don't know when they started/stopped living anywhere, just where they happened to be at two points in time
WHAT ARE YOU, A FUCKING DATA SCIENTIST

> but some of the start/end dates actually are definite and relevant dates, e.g. when someone began to be homeless
RAISE A SUPPORT TICKET SO WE AND YOUR MANAGER CAN BOTH TELL YOU TO FUCK OFF

@tef I daydream of a CRM which would serve as a notetaking app for a murder mystery novel - you're not recording platonic truths about reality, you're taking statements from a variety of variously reliable sources, aggregating them together and seeing what statements cause a conflict with the others. i.e. managing conflict rather than trying to ban it