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# [The Shift Left Nobody's Talking About: When Your Data Stack Becomes the Next X-Acto Knife](https://distributedthoughts.org/the-shift-left-nobodys-talking-about-when-your-data-stack-becomes-the-next-x-acto-knife?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Data’s 1971 Moment In 1971, knowing how to assemble a magazine spread with an X-Acto knife was a career-defining skill. Art directors spent years mastering the geometry, the wax, the precise cuts. Then desktop publishing arrived. By 1985, Aldus Page...

May 5 · 5 min read · distributedthoughts.org  
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