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Florent Crivello @Altimor
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On internalizing the essence of a rule so deeply that one knows when to violate it to stay true to its intent; and remembering the obvious, instead of trying to uncover the arcane.
Bruce Lee was talking of learning, and then unlearning. First learning the rules, and reproducing the form again and again, until you soak in the actual intent and can shed the form away.
Resonates with my experience in programming: the best engineers are those who know when to ignore common principles.
Remembering the obvious vs trying to uncover the arcane
Also, this is not a photoshop: Acer really shipped a laptop with the trackpad above the keyboard, and I probably think about it way more often than I should.
I’d totally watch a documentary about it too. What’s the background story? How many rounds of review did it pass? What kind of culture lets this happen? How many thousands of men-hours were spent on this before it hit a store? So many questions.
“Learning becomes unlearning, […] sitting with paradox, being at peace with and navigating the tension of competing truths”
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