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The alternative view is that the right tools are more like a bicycle and less like crutches. The art is knowing which is which I suppose.
by phreeza 6y ago
The alternative view is that the right tools are more like a bicycle and less like crutches. The art is knowing which is which I suppose.
- gumby 6y agoWas your use of this example a reference to Steve Job's referring of the computer as the "Bicycle of the mind"? I think he might have been quoting Stewart Brand.
- adolph 6y agoLearning by Shipping article claims Jobs credits "March 1973 Scientific American." [0, 1] Jobs says it in the presence of Brand in this Wired book excerpt [2], to which Ken Kesey [!] replies "It’s the next thing after acid!" [3] 0. https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/bicycle-121262546097 https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/bicycle-121262546097 1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24923004?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/24923004?seq=1#metadata_info_ta... 2. https://www.wired.com/story/how-doug-engelbart-pulled-off-the-mother-of-all-demos/ https://www.wired.com/story/how-doug-engelbart-pulled-off-th... 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey
- cyberbanjo 6y agoMore zeppelins than bikes.
- dwiel 6y agoDefinitely extending the usefulness of the analogy, but when I am riding my bike a lot and then take a break for repairs and walk more instead, I quickly get sore. Even after walking distances that I dont normally get sore from if I am bike free for a while and walking more regularly.