The objective is not the essentialness or something borderline metaphysical like that. The objective is to do a job with _whatever_ tools you find lying about. And to do that, you need to know enough about the tools that do that job, and how they're used, so that you can:
a) use a different tool when you want/need to, b) make your own tool when the ones lying about are inadequate, and c) accomplish a slightly different task with a tool not designed for that task. The point is the category of use cases for the tools, the domain. To me, this is the heart of "survival" across infrastructure changes, innovation, and everyday efficiency and efficacy. -- ⇒⇐ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
