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Nothing's for everyone. No technique, workflow, programming language, business methodology, or idea applies to everybody. No post on HN will ever resonate with

by mcav 15y ago

Nothing's for everyone. No technique, workflow, programming language, business methodology, or idea applies to everybody. No post on HN will ever resonate with everyone. Take that as a given, because every post could just as well have a disclaimer like this.

true_religion 15y ago
A lack of resonance doesn't prevent some concepts from being universal. You're taking it too far by saying that no concepts are universally applicable to human beings. If I made a post saying "We need to eat to live a healthy life", would that not be a universal truth? If it doesn't resonate with some people (e.g. some quibble: "We can puree our food and drink it" or "intravenous injection works for me", and ignore the serious disadvantages of both choices) is the scientific truth of "we need to eat to live a healthy life" not true? Relativism to an extreme degree is next to nihilism.
- ThomPete 15y ago
  The problem with "We need to eat to live a healthy life" is that it opens up all sorts of questions. What do we need to eat? What is a healthy life? Who are we? etc. It's not really about relativism it's about asking those questions. Anyway, way to far from OT.
  - true_religion 15y ago
    I think you're taking it for granted that we know we need to eat to live a healthy life. If this fact were debatable, it would be a different story.
    - drieddust 15y ago
      We need to think is as universal as we need to eat is. We need to eat 3 meats or 5 meals or meat or vegetable are specific manifestation of universal facts that we need to eat. This book tries to teach what author think can help you in thinking creatively which is an answer to how question. You may or may not like it and it may or may not be applicable to you.
      - true_religion 15y ago
        I'm sorry, we're not actually talking about the book. This thread is off-topic.
dsmithn 15y ago
I believe his comment is justified for this particular article because the author specifically says, "The results are almost always incredible...And it works for everyone. Even if you hated school writing assignments, you will love Freewriting."

by mcav 15y ago

true_religion 15y ago

A lack of resonance doesn't prevent some concepts from being universal. You're taking it too far by saying that no concepts are universally applicable to human beings. If I made a post saying "We need to eat to live a healthy life", would that not be a universal truth? If it doesn't resonate with some people (e.g. some quibble: "We can puree our food and drink it" or "intravenous injection works for me", and ignore the serious disadvantages of both choices) is the scientific truth of "we need to eat to live a healthy life" not true? Relativism to an extreme degree is next to nihilism.

ThomPete 15y ago
The problem with "We need to eat to live a healthy life" is that it opens up all sorts of questions. What do we need to eat? What is a healthy life? Who are we? etc. It's not really about relativism it's about asking those questions. Anyway, way to far from OT.
- true_religion 15y ago
  I think you're taking it for granted that we know we need to eat to live a healthy life. If this fact were debatable, it would be a different story.
  - drieddust 15y ago
    We need to think is as universal as we need to eat is. We need to eat 3 meats or 5 meals or meat or vegetable are specific manifestation of universal facts that we need to eat. This book tries to teach what author think can help you in thinking creatively which is an answer to how question. You may or may not like it and it may or may not be applicable to you.
    - true_religion 15y ago
      I'm sorry, we're not actually talking about the book. This thread is off-topic.

dsmithn 15y ago

I believe his comment is justified for this particular article because the author specifically says, "The results are almost always incredible...And it works for everyone. Even if you hated school writing assignments, you will love Freewriting."