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Slow the F Down, IT Dreamer is a short, humorous, and painfully familiar poem about life inside modern IT.

Told as a fable, it follows an overwhelmed Dreamer trapped between uptime, innovation, and impossible expectations. Tickets never stop. Priorities collide. Everything matters right now. Until two calm helpers arrive and say the unthinkable.

Slow the f down.

This book is for:

IT professionals burned out by constant urgency
Engineers tired of being heroes at 2 a.m.
Managers caught between delivery pressure and system reality
Anyone who knows that moving faster is often how things break

What you will find inside:

A fast read you can finish in minutes
Humor that hits a little too close to home
A simple but powerful reminder about pace, trust, and sustainability
No jargon, no frameworks, no lectures

This is not a how-to book.

It is a mirror.

And maybe a small intervention.

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