06 Mar 08
Notional Slurry »There are exactly two ways: one, and many →
William Tozier has written a great little essay regarding the nature and implications of the term “delay”. Here’s a taste…
… One cannot see one pattern everywhere. You are not a generalist but a crackpot if you see everything as connected to your personal model of the world. When you cast everything as a nail to be struck by your One Important Hammer, you’re just falling back on another flavor of specialization. The world is diverse—more diverse than any single description or model—and the proper generalist cannot be parsimonious, cannot be efficient in trying to force the world to fit.
She can’t afford to. A generalist has no more time or attention than any other person. She doesn’t see the whole of the world all as being the same, as being proof of something.
She slices the world in a different direction. Along a different axis, a personal axis. …
Go read it. Then start rethinking your attention queue.