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I wonder if he has a colleague in the English department who wrote an article complaining about the amount of "notebook bullshitery" that an English student has
by naunga 12y ago
I wonder if he has a colleague in the English department who wrote an article complaining about the amount of "notebook bullshitery" that an English student has to go through to start writing an essay.
Calling out the pains that students go through having to go to a store and pick out a notebook? And the woes and confusion that they experience with faced with the vast and baffling array of colors, paper sizes, page counts, line widths, and so on.
I found the woes outlined in this article to be dubious. This is simply a "first world problem".
On the other hand, I did get a warm-fuzzy feeling regarding my job security, since I am more than comfortable at the command line and further: learning to use tools I have never encountered before.
- recursive 12y agoThere is a lot less bullshittery surrounding the acquisition of notebooks and pens than there is around setting up certain software. A ~year ago I decided to set up a rails development environment, having no experience with it or ruby. I assembled a list of repeatable instructions as I went. It took me about two days, and had over 50 steps. If you are experienced with the domain, you could probably do it in 5 minutes, but there is not a good reason why it should require so much specialized knowledge just to get it set up.