CodeBurn and the Problem I Didn't Know I Had: Tokens Per Real Task

Back in 2005, when the internet café was packed on a Friday night, I had one very clear metric: minutes until the connection came back. Every minute was money walking out the door — not mine, the owner's, but I felt the weight of it. I learned fast to tell the difference between problems worth attacking with trial and error and ones that needed precise diagnosis first. Spending five minutes swapping cables before looking at the logs was a luxury I couldn't afford. Today I have a new metric that