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> Some expertise is timeless. A few behaviors always repeat. They’re often the most important things to pay attention to. AKA: wisdom. Seek, cherish, and prote
by smitty1e 5y ago
> Some expertise is timeless. A few behaviors always repeat. They’re often the most important things to pay attention to.
AKA: wisdom. Seek, cherish, and protect that. Wisdom is functional.
'Expertise' is often knowledge if the current/historical state of affairs. When a dam breaks:
> It usually means other parts of the system have evolved in a way that allows what was once impossible to now become practical.
The state of the hardware, the software, and the peopleware at any moment in time is an Overton Window.
- foundart 5y agoTIL Overton Window: "The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window A very useful concept.
- aigo 5y agoThe window, and the ways political agents try to move it in one direction or another, explains a lot of modern discourse It intersects with Chomsky's ideas about manufacturing consent quite nicely too