Life Through Code
Life, debugged: why everyday things work the way they do, explained through the systems that model them.
How often to look up
If you never go the wrong way for an afternoon, you are stopping to check too often.
That sounds like a license to be careless. It isn't. It falls out of a small piece of arithmetic that computers worked out in 1974, for a problem that turns out to be the same as one people have every day.
You can't be absorbed in something and think about it at the same time. When the writing is going well, you aren't asking whether it's the right piece to write. The moment you ask, the absorption stops. Heidegger had words for this: a hammer in use disappears into the work, and only becomes an object you look at when you stop hammering. …
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