Triptych 1 (well, kinda): Familiarity, Killing Time, Fail Fast

Here are three items that are fairly long, but not long enough for blog posts in themselves:FamiliarityThe famous piano composer Frederic Chopin wrote a piano waltz that takes two minutes to play on average.  In English is called the "Minute Waltz", a name likely added by a publisher, as often happened in the time and especially to Chopin's works ("Revolutionary", "Military", etc.).  In 40 years