Learning curves
Minimum viable whatever, experience curve, worse is better, PC-losering, Postel chaos, Burkean engineering
February 3, 2020 — March 13, 2024
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Various brief notes on ease and mastery. Getting good with practice, at an individual and organisational scale.
1 Individual learning curves
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The consequences of this divergence in needed talent and effort cause The Lisp Curse:
Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other programming languages are social issues in Lisp.
2 Organisational learning curves
3 References
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Jordà. 2004. “Instruments and Players: Some Thoughts on Digital Lutherie.” Journal of New Music Research.
Murray-Browne. 2012. “Balancing Creative Freedom with Musical Development.”
Wright. 1936. “Factors Affecting the Cost of Airplanes.” Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences.