> Maybe I've become cynical but the longer I've been working, the more I like the postmodern theory that almost everything is a language game. I start to recogn

> Maybe I've become cynical but the longer I've been working, the more I like the postmodern theory that almost everything is a language game. I start to recognize bullshit, and to recognize when it's the right time to use BS myself. (Not saying that truth doesn't matter. Just that sometimes you have a correct but not convincing point, and you can support it with a not-100%-scientifically correct, but more convincing point.) After 17 years of career I can relate to this feeling, at least the start of it. I'm not at the point where I can safely evaluate when it's the right time to bullshit myself, as a way to avoid putting effort on convincing someone about intuitive feelings I have, from all my accumulated experience, on why something is good or bad to do. I'm still at the stage where I pick my battles instead of trying to use language to empower an argument I feel strong about, I'm still too "naive and honest" and would feel it's wrong to do it. But fucking hell, how many discussions I have simply avoided or jumped out because it would take too much energy and time to explain to someone that's been too stubborn or sure about some solution or process. I have much less patience for these, I got more in the mode of "show, don't tell" and if I feel I don't have energy for a quick demo I know it's not a battle worth of my time. I think I'm still too much of a modernist and seeking truth...