2:40pm on August 12, 2024 from Greece.
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source: {'title': 'In praise of the particular, and other lessons from 2023', 'creator': 'Andy Matuschak', 'published': datetime.date(2024, 1, 2), 'url': 'https://andymatuschak.org/2023/', 'text': 'It’s often hard to find “misfits” when I’m thinking about general forms. My\nconnection to the problem becomes too diffuse. The object of my attention\nbecomes the system itself, rather than its interactions with a specific context\nof use. This leads to a common failure mode among system designers: getting lost\nin towers of purity and abstraction, more and more disconnected from the\nsystem’s ostensible purpose in the world.', 'wordcount': 69, 'html': 'It’s often hard to find “misfits” when I’m thinking about general forms. My\nconnection to the problem becomes too diffuse. The object of my attention\nbecomes the system itself, rather than its interactions with a specific context\nof use. This leads to a common failure mode among system designers: getting lost\nin towers of purity and abstraction, more and more disconnected from the\nsystem’s ostensible purpose in the world.
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via: {'title': 'CNC joinery, modular electronics, Rust frustrations, two book reviews', 'creator': 'Kevin Lynagh', 'published': datetime.date(2024, 2, 14), 'url': 'https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2024_02_rustrations/'}
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title: Andy Matuschak, In praise of the particular, and other lessons from 2023, 2024
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