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That time I accidentally reinvented a 2500 year old pricing structure. Which is fine. It’s nice to come to things from your own logic.

We are perpetually having the same conversations because people are using it for everything.

“What do people think about prints?” Becomes a recurring conversation popping up every several months because people have the memory of a mayfly.

This is just an example. But this is the sort of question more suited to a forum / bbs.

Algorithms should be like Victorian children.

Just because I like a post doesn’t mean I only want to see posts about the topic.

(Explicit vs implicit)

Just because you declare “legitimate interest” doesn’t mean that you legitimately have a need to know that I visited a website.

Know the difference between text, context, and subtext.

There are some delightful things I learn which may have obvious to anyone with some basic knowledge of a particular time and place.

There are other things I discover which explicitly go against the established and accepted narratives of how things have been understood to have been.

And there are things I realize and connections I make which often explain why something was the way it was.

All three are knowledge. All three are fascinating. All three are delightful.

But all three are not the same.

A sculpture of a bull in a china shop, but an X in a gift shop.

I still don’t know why anyone should be interested in history or etymology. People aren’t even interested in reality anymore.

A collection of open questions I’m looking for the answer for