Any time I read content written with the voice and philosophy of the author of this article, I am reminded of the excellent paper "Fuck Nuance". https://kieran

Any time I read content written with the voice and philosophy of the author of this article, I am reminded of the excellent paper "Fuck Nuance". https://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf https://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf Just like there is an appeal to oversimplifying and over-abstracting, there is a similar appeal to over-complicating and "over-nuancing". By trying to account for everything, you accomplish nothing, understand nothing, and gain no insights. The hacker ethos, like any simplified abstraction, does not capture the entire story, but it also doesn't oversimplfy. It provides a useful model to work with and to think about, and trying to make it a lot more nuanced dilutes the points it is making and ruins its usefulness.