I take it as more positive than normative. In other words: here is a description of how it turns out I get (certain) things done; and not: here is a recipe for

I take it as more positive than normative. In other words: here is a description of how it turns out I get (certain) things done; and not: here is a recipe for getting things done. (It occurred to me to post it this morning because I spent half an hour making a 'retina'/hi-dpi version of the HN voting arrow and emailing it in, on the off-chance it might get used, in preference to about 14 more pressing tasks).