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one of those things thatโs hard to unsee or stop speaking about once you see it
Demystification versus Understanding
ribbonfarm.com
Excerpts:
To demystify something is to understand it to a level where you no longer feel anxious about your ignorance.
To understand something is to have the same priorities as experts regarding that something.
Expertise is, in a sense, a consensus of priorities.
Expertise also comes with taking many basic things for granted. So when radical changes happen, sometimes it is the naive novice, wrestling with the basics, who ends up innocently asking the right questions.
this was a big one. took a few months for it to really click. but when it did, i realized i could no longer not learn how to code (unless all of this was wrong. it is right).
Craft and
Names like Hunter, Cooper, Tanner become appealing as those professions become alien to us, more symbolic than real; after the collapse, our children will be named Recruiter, Codeninja, Webdev, out of the same abstract nostalgia
neoltitudex.comThis actually wouldn't surprise me
If the polynesian wayfinding tradition had died out just a couple centuries earlier, so that we didn't have living practitioners as a matter of record,
they'd tell us that navigating the pacific like that was impossible and those stories were just legends and allegories
More on Polynesian navigation
By 1910, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked streetcars from Elkhart, Wisconsin, to Oneonta, NYโa journey of 1,100 milesโexclusively by electric trolley. ๐๐งต https://t.co/V8qK07lkpn
Intercity transit used to be electric