What’s it called when you replicate the surface qualities of something but, because of a lack of understanding or deficit of tacit knowledge, entirely fail to capture the actual essence?
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Something about this feels very San Francisco. The ethos of tech startup culture - in effect if not in intention - is to run this kind of experiment and see if you can create something better than the original at doing the same job as the original does
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Startup culture is an implicit hunt for a quidditas that more closely resembles the hypokeimenon/subiectum of any given haecceity (The audience for this tweet is approximately 0, unless
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @sonyaellenmann and
How dare you question his haecceity. These are all perfectly cromulent words.
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