It is like the upwind that lets birds of prey soar in the mountains: if there is only emotional wind, or only the hard rock of reason, there is no lift. You need both the mountain and the wind to soar.

It has been what Christopher Alexander called an unfolding . Put simply:

• * I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people to find me, and then I hung out with them. We did projects together.


• * I kept iterating—paying attention to the context, removing things that frustrated me, and e

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