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was just talking to Soomin about Ludwig Wittgenstein and she pointed to his Philosophical Investigations I - remark #593 that she's been contemplating:

A main cause of of philosophical disease -- an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example

how true this is .. singular examples can often become the bane of a balanced architecture - too often i'll have to talk to customers that are stuck in a particular mindset because of the lack of diverse examples they've been fed over the years for a problem they're trying to solve

now if you balance this with Abraham Maslow's hammer:

"When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail"

and apply this to computing, you can begin to see that there is a disease we can propagate when we take certain tools and blindly apply them as a singular solution without really rethinking the problems we might be trying to solve.