You can want something, or you can just be interested in things. On a dating site, you can decide what you want in a partner and filter people for that and message them. Or, you can find many things about people interesting, and look for any of these traits or hobbies, and ask about them. …
First the loose thinking and the building up of a structure on unsound foundations and then the correction to stricter thinking and the substitutions a new underpinning beneath the already constructed mass. Gregory Bateson on the advance of science. (From Steps to an Ecology of Mind) This expresses a process I have observed in developers. …
I begin to wonder whether I am mad or have hit on an idea which is much bigger than I am. Gregory Bateson As someone who grew up in a religion and then let go of it in my mid-twenties, it’s easy to say, religion is a useless fiction that persists because a powerful group …