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direct aims, broad interests

September 5, 2019 by jessitron

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. … Read moredirect aims, broad interests

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Develop before define

June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 by jessitron

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. … Read moreDevelop before define

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How religion is important

May 26, 2019May 24, 2019 by jessitron

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 … Read moreHow religion is important

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