"You don't need this junk. You need a cat.": There's lots of ways to do things right, but so little variation in this particular way of doing things wrong.
chavisory:
youneedacat: Something that strikes me about that really long post I finally wrote last night. Is that there are so very many ways to do things right. Varying by context, culture, all kinds of things. But the mentality I’m talking about makes it sound like there’s only one way, even when on the surface it… Have you ever read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
youneedacat:
Something that strikes me about that really long post I finally wrote last night. Is that there are so very many ways to do things right. Varying by context, culture, all kinds of things. But the mentality I’m talking about makes it sound like there’s only one way, even when on the surface it…
Have you ever read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
Yeah. Didn’t like it.
I think I understand your concerns. I don’t intend for my model to be reductive or formal; it’s the sort of model I...
It’s times like this that I’m really happy to have someone around. Who has a brain that functions enough like mine to...
Yeah…it’s more the kind of stuff where not only can you not precisely describe it using language, you also can’t neatly...