What are some principles justifying laziness, messiness, indiscipline etc? refactorcamp.org/@vgr/100267559
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Man you’re spiraling down into something real fast. King of the North keeping you up and sleep-deprived?
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Principle of the Imagination and creativity, as written about by Coleridge, in which alternate passive and active actions of mind (apprehension, cogitation, communication, intercourse) generate the creative state.
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I think a lot of “lazy evaluation” applies outside programming - you can hedge against uncertainty by making robust choices now (or non-choices) and deferring decisive actions until needed.
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"take time to stop and smell the roses" and its evil twin "I'll sleep when I'm dead" (which leads to those things, just a bit further down the road)
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Maintaining focus on something other than what you're being lazy about, not cleaning, not training
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To fingerprint, one must first get past the messiness and squooshiness. There is a feeling one gets upon acceptance of the messiness. That feeling tells you that play has begun.
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