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Wax on, Wax off
Zed’s post on mastery is great, as usual. I have only this to add: that while mastery transcends rules, no one achieves mastery without first acquiring discipline. The masters, who eschew wrote practices to cut straight to the heart of … Continue reading
Simplicity is Complicated
The favorite rhetorical fallback of politicians of every stripe is “it’s for the children”. Anything can be justified in terms of making things better for children if you frame it right. Lately I’ve begun to think that the word “simple” … Continue reading
Rock’em Sock’em Ockham
Inspired by “this talk by Jim Weirich”:http://mtnwestrubyconf2008.confreaks.com/15weirich.html: !/images/rockoutockout.jpg! Image by “scottfeldstein”:http://flickr.com/photos/scottfeldstein/, “some rights reserved”:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en. (For the shaving nerds, this poster features the Merkur Hefty Classic, a razor I recently acquired and am so far pretty happy with.)
