This is such an astute observation, I've been thinking about it for days. The construction of tech "koans" or "zen" (in addition to being in poor taste culturally) sets them up to make it socially unacceptable to question their rationale.https://twitter.com/sdboyer/status/1034898646100332562 …
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I don't just mean because they become community religion, I mean even the structure of them is that they are deliberately vague or counterintuitive, which means if you question them you *look like you aren't in on the joke.*
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The best slogans I know of flip the script by eliminating the bogeyman: Stability without stagnation means you're not "out of the loop" because you don't know that "software moves forward". It means that we look to find ways to economize the differences in that tradeoff.pic.twitter.com/40URRW0q4i
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