An Excerpt from my Book "How programmed are Programmers?

The following is the excerpt from my book from the chapter " The Life API – Bitter Gourd Framework" from the section Boss – Rate Limited API

Throttling the Bandwidth: Daniel, The Boss

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Daniel ran on urgency. A product of Wall Street’s no-fluff culture, he drank triple espressos, skipped hello in meetings, and believed that brevity was the soul of profitability. Words, to him, were like clock cycles—measured, optimized, and never wasted.

He wasn't unkind. But he was impatient. High-performance didn’t just describe his expectations—it described his personality.

If Matt spent more than sixty seconds setting up context, Daniel’s eyes glazed over. Once, during a product roadmap meeting, Matt began with a thoughtful rationale. Daniel cut him off, sharp and surgical:  “Give me the answer. Not the thesis.”

Matt froze. Not out of fear, but realization.

Daniel wasn’t wired for deep dives unless explicitly requested. He wasn’t hostile—he just had a rate limit.

From that day on, Matt adapted a new wrapper for meeting his boss. He wrote bullet-point summaries before meetings. Practiced 2-minute narratives in front of the mirror. Learned to frontload conclusions, not build up to them.

Mat wasn’t changing his data. He was changing his data transfer format.

Daniel, like a rate-limited API, dropped excessive input without warning. The signal had to be clean and quick. Anything beyond the threshold?

429: Too Many Requests.

Matt didn’t take it personally. He adjusted the throughput.  No more dropped packets. No more frustration.  Simply better communication.

Because, in every interface, whether system or human, success belongs not to those who complain about the limits, but to those who optimize them.

This is also called profiling a person in interpersonal skills. During the meetings, some bosses want top-down information while reporting; others want to be detailed from bottom-up. An example is that some bosses want to know the result, positive or negative, at the beginning of the conversation and after stories why they are positive or negative. Other bosses want them to be polled until they answered the telephone call, while others are e-mailing savvy. If you want your interaction to be nice and fruitful – profile them and write a wrapper to interface with boss system.