1/ There's something funny about ppl who can never *quite* find the "right" app for a core purpose
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2/ I'll hear from them over period of MANY months that they're still tinkering, researching, oh wait now they've decided to code their own!
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3/ They become experts, even connoisseurs of the exquisitely subtle micro-differences between every available app in the category
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4/ And they can tell anyone using any app why their use of that app is not *quite* the optimal decision, for reasons 1-23
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5/ It strikes me as a giant, self-reinforcing structure designed to justify not taking action, not producing, not finding real bottleneck
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5a: Constant tradeoff between process-level throughput vs object-level throughput.
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5b: OL throughput necessary for good feedback ∴ necessary for improvement, and also scary if fear of failure or if goals are conflicted
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What is the object you're referring to? The objective (vs. process)?
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Yeah. eg I asked
@Meaningness about site tech (hover-glossary) & he said he had to keep from tweaking it (PL) instead of writing (OL)1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
Fortunately web tech maintenance is only maybe 10% of total effort. That might be 10% too much, though!
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The other option is to actually form an OL project around the system. eg my livelihood comes from https://complice.co , which I also use.
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I have thought about making a business out of book-on-the-web tools.
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