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I like his perspective and agree with many of his points, but his writing style needs some work. It’s a blog post about ham radio, not a cringy thesis paper.
by Jorge1o1 8y ago
I like his perspective and agree with many of his points, but his writing style needs some work.
It’s a blog post about ham radio, not a cringy thesis paper.
Short snippet:
>Next, as we seek those truths, let’s examine what an axiom is. An axiom is short hand for a kernel of truth. A poster sign. It is a spoken reduction of events and their goals that are self evident. Personal mastery and their axioms feed on one another. And the axioms contain vocabularies which allow us to understand skill and culture.
It’s far too academic and elevated for the medium (buh-boosh), and frankly it even borders on pretentious
- xxpor 8y agoIt struck me as a poor ripoff of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance
- trm42 8y agoFunny, I was thinking the same. Although at the same the article put into words what I've been thinking about my photography hobby that has gotten too serious.
- masukomi 8y agoyeah, as a ham i was pretty interested in what he had to say, but that's the point where i said "fuck this noize", skimmed a few more paragraphs to confirm suspicions, and wandered off.
- TheCowboy 8y agoPedantic counterpoint: Academic papers would be less likely to even attempt explaining the jargon and how it functions, so on one level it might be appreciated that they are making that attempt to make a topic more accessible. But I do agree it could be less flowery to increase clarity.
- rdiddly 8y agoYet he seem to have a basic problems with plural. [sic]
- TeMPOraL 8y agoAnd (without reading the post), it also seems wrong. That's not what an axiom is, by any definition of the word that I know. The term I know means more-less "something assumed as true, as a starting point for inference or discussion".