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Andy Matuschak
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Dec 5, 2013
▢ Blinded by “how”: http://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/69049177559/blinded-by-how… A personal cautionary tale on subtle but serious dangers of neglecting “why” for “how”.
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Blinded by "how"
Imagine that you’ve just moved to a new city. Whenever you need to go somewhere, you ask a special machine how to get there. But it doesn’t show you a map: it tells you to take twenty steps, turn...
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Jonathan Willing
@willing
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Dec 5, 2013
@andy_matuschak
Excellent post, thank you for writing this. I’ve struggled with finding that critical difference between why and how.
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Andy Matuschak
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Please please please read http://amazon.com/The-Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform/dp/0143121359…. It will help clear everything up.
5:17 AM · Dec 5, 2013 from Bernal Heights, San Francisco·Tweetbot for Mac
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Jonathan Willing
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Dec 5, 2013
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Thank you for the recommendation, I’ll try to pick up a copy!