Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Random skill-estate thought
I'm studying the old science of astro-meteorology in my usual way, by trying to animate a machine that performed the function. There are several clear books about the various systems, differing in details and agreeing in broad outline.
As I start to understand the systems and their experimental basis, I'm starting to imagine the analog computer that would have implemented them.
It turns out that I 'built' a similar machine a few months ago as a branch of the bridges and balances theme, but didn't use it in those blogposts. It didn't quite fit the theme.
Lesson, which isn't surprising by now: Never discard a more or less finished idea or product. Keep it around, and keep enough documentation so you can return to it with some understanding.
This is the skill-estate version of STORAGE.
The modern psychopaths, the Innovative Disruptors, consider 'sunk cost' to be absolute anathema. They tell us to pull away from every experimentally proven skill or workflow or thought or device or invention. Amortization is a mortal sin.
EXPERIENCE SURVIVES. THEORY KILLS.
Labels: Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law, skill-estate, storage
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