Pattern for Pattern

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9 pointsprocyon4 comments

Don't bother reading the first 20 paragraphs of pretty meaningless exposition, start reading at "It hit like a meteorite."

The very last paragraph is also pretty revealing.

Edit: the thing I like about his post is that it's a real example of how insight is distilled from experience. Yes, it's meandering. But then the experience itself was meandering, so maybe it needs to be.

Serves me right for reading most of it. I actually thought writing was for communication so he might have a point buried in there.

"I actually found this pretty easy to read", said the ADHD kid typing while looking out of the coffee shop window.

I liked how he took us through a Journey a lot of us have made struggling with people who try and make patterns into buzzwords.

This is a great article which will hopefully help you with an "Aha!" moment as well.

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