Scribbles

I’ve written about the critical distinction between “reasoning from first principles” and “reasoning by analogy”—or what I called being a “chef” vs. being a “cook.” The idea is that reasoning from first principles is reasoning like a scientist. You take core facts and observations and use them to puzzle together a conclusion, kind of like a chef playing around with raw ingredients to try to make them into something good. By doing this puzzling, a chef eventually writes a new recipe. The other kind of reasoning—reasoning by analogy—happens when you look at the way things are already done and you essentially copy it, with maybe a little personal tweak here and there—kind of like a cook following an already written recipe. ...

“The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” — Alvin Toffler via Sivers

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.” — Yogi Berra

Busy day today, so slightly cheating and pointing you to to this.

I’m in a funk. And struggling mightily to get out.

Rebuiding stuff and writing for friends took up all of the last three days. So sorry, nothing here. But Daily Writing definitely got done. Speaking of which, I’m experimenting with Static Site Generators. Janusworx is now a Nikola powered blog, because I wanted something simple.