Compare: Kathy Sierra’s “I am just a UI” (http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/10/4/presentation-skills-considered-harmful …) and this bit from Understanding Comicspic.twitter.com/cWgsNY1KFg
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Weird to realize that I first encountered the “ladder of abstraction” well before I knew anything about programmingpic.twitter.com/HqOQTtxGbX
@maxkreminski The "ladder of abstraction" was popularized in a 1949 book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_in_Thought_and_Action …
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@michael_nielsen That explains it, then! Seems like interesting "new" ideas almost always turn out to be older than I first realized -
@maxkreminski Hayakawa's book is, in turn, a popularization of Korzybski's "General Semantics" (which I've never managed to read)
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