I often find that while I'm writing about or discussing an issue, it turns out that the way I initially framed things was wrong. Not factually wrong, exactly, but as I am writing I find that the way I framed things suggests consequences that are silly. This doesn&
Every well-written main character in fiction has a why. They may not be able to rationally explain it, but they have it. Often, though, they can explain it — if not completely then partly. One important thing that stories and writers do with this is what I'm calling "
The Inuyasha episode "Juromaru and Kageromaru" is kind of weird. It is weird to me in that its scene-level consequences don't look like the stereotypical example. but it is also weird because even the episode-level consequence doesn't look like the stereotypical example. The show&
Suppose you have a batch-processing pipeline with multiple steps. It's often nice to split this up a little bit – usually along time cost lines, usually around the parts that take a long time to run. Long-running steps get separated out from short steps to save on time; short
(About taking notes when having a discussion with another person. Working through an idea. Probably only useful to me.) Often when I have a discussion I'll take notes. Usually this means scribbling down the things the person is saying them, slightly simplified and chopped up or chopped off,