And also yes:

> On Jun 26, 2021, at 2:49 AM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There are a small number of occasions I can remember that I wish I could 
> remember how a situation arose.   The world goes on roaring around me and 
> mostly I don't have any influence over it.   Nothing is held constant, 
> really.  To remember or communicate the things that work they have to be 
> reproducible and have some story behind them about why they ought to work, or 
> a set of tried and true practices where they have worked.   Having all the 
> .history and keystrokes of everything I have ever typed is not particularly 
> informative about that.   If it is important enough to track, I'll put it in 
> revision control.  The rest is noise and idiosyncrasies of consciousness.   I 
> could easily imagine someone not putting a set of sequences into the SRA 
> because they were not comfortable with the provenance, because they didn't 
> run the equipment themselves, or something like that.   That they just didn't 
> want to pollute the public databases.

A really enjoyable book for me was this one:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674576223 
<https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674576223>

As usual for lazy people, I seem to have taken on its message as a polarizing 
filter for numerous things in life, far beyond what the strengths of its 1960s 
methods warrants, and well outside any justification for using it as a metaphor 
for solutions to other problems.  But still it’s the kind of a big-concept book 
that I don’t get to read many of.

Eric


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