:)
Some guys like me and (camillo) for example are more in straight line
thinking but you are so right.
Stef
On 20/8/14 18:53, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
stepharo wrote
I received Beacon (which at the end was trying to help defining a cool
logger) as a sign that I lost my energy on building SystemLogger. Now I
think that if I would not have built SystemLogger, we would not have got
Beacon and our discussions would have been way poorer.
This is real wisdom. I too struggle with what appears to be duplication of
efforts, but I'm reminded of two related themes which Alan Kay talks about a
lot:
- evolution is closer to a random walk with a slight bias than a straight
line
- in biology, what often appears in human illustration/simulation as
components interacting in lock-step as if on a track is actually fortuitous,
made possible by the tremendous speed and energy of everything going on in
the cell
So, as you discovered, and I need to be repeatedly reminded of, there is no
perfect world where the stars align and each piece moves with speed and
precision into its predestined place in the whole. There is only a sloppy,
often frustrating, two-steps-forward-one-step-back frenzy where what comes
out on the other side is hopefully better than what we started with. Said
more simply: "this is what winning looks like"
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Cheers,
Sean
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