begin quoting boblq as of Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:10:42PM -0700: [snip] > I do know that it often requires less effort, and almost > always is more fun to create, than to learn. So creative > people will take that branch even if is is "irrational".
It's not irrational to them. It's more fun and easier. What's the downside? Of course, if you don't learn from those who went before, you're liable to make the same sorts of mistakes... [snip] > are ignorant. Rational choice has a high cost. > You have to expend a lot of energy surveying > what others have done. This means looking at > a lot of really bad stuff. And sometimes some > good stuff that takes a lot of time to understand. ....especially if you don't have a good description about the pressures that led to that good solution. > Ignorance is bliss. Ignore the good and the bad. > > Bliss is almost always easier to obtain than knowledge. *snarf* > More curious as time goes by. With no fixed > opinion, except I note that doing the "right" > thing is not the same as doing the "fun" thing. Symptomatic of our species.... > Nor is doing the "right" thing always the choice > that leads to the "best" out come. Funny but > things are much more complex than that. Often > the guys who just go out and have fun create > the stuff that matters. Scratch your own itches, pull the logs out of your own eyes.... and you'll do a better job than if you're scratching someone else's itch, or pulling splinters out of their eyes. In general, things are more complicated than the seem. > Puritans rarely create anything. Er, from what I can tell, not true. Puritans rarely create anything that non-puritans appreciate, perhaps. -Stewart "Been googling about puritans recently. Interesting stuff." Stremler
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