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Uncomfortable Truths in Software Engineering • Buttondown
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In Indigenous agriculture, the practice is to modify the plants to fit the land. As a result, there are many varieties of corn domesticated by our ancestors, all adapted to grow in many different places. Modern agriculture, with its big engines and fossil fuels, took the opposite approach: modify the land to fit the plants, which are frighteningly similar clones.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Often, in making edits to a work: The ego comes in, saying: I wanted this to happen, I got what I wanted, so it's a problem solved.
But this isn't necessarily true. Yes, the changes were made, but did they improve the work? Or have they set off a domino effect that created other problems?
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
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