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Conway's Law seem like a specifically social instance of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil aphorism #6: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil https:
by anonymouskimmer 4y ago
Conway's Law seem like a specifically social instance of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil aphorism #6: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil
> Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir; also that the moral (or immoral) intentions in every philosophy constituted the real germ of life from which the whole plant has grown.
I originally came upon this quote in the context of a comparison of personality theories (Dave Kelly, Ptypes).
- osullivj 4y agoEven Wittgenstein's Tractatus?
- christo 4y agoOK so I just read the wikipedia page on that and I don't understand the origin of your uncertainty. What is apparent and certain is that you know it better than I do and I'm interested to understand your thinking. That and it's dope that we're only two branches offshoot from software architecture.
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoProbably. It is possible to think and write in another's mode. But it's difficult to do consistently, and it certainly isn't satisfying to the person doing so.