I was reading the volokh conspiracy and ran across this fragment:

Do you know the password to the laptop?” If Boucher does know the password, he would be faced with the forbidden trilemma; incriminate himself, lie under oath, or find himself in contempt of court. Id . at 212

Roll that one around for a second - trilemma. Yummy.

I recently blogged about some desire we had for space. I guess our trilemma there was: potentially tough work environment, tough geographic distribution, or reduced flexibility.

This is neat because, while I’ve been hauling triority around for, gosh, two decades, I’ve never thought of problems in the same way.

For example, we’re launching a new service at Promote-My-Site in a few weeks. So we’re having the pricing discussion: too cheap to be taken seriously, too expensive to be adopted, too complicated to be explicable.

Handy concept, the trilemma.