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Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025
There's a phenomenon in engineering sometimes where an engineer, sometimes even an early career one, will do amazing things because "nobody told them it was hard" and/or nobody told them the "correct" way to do it.
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The uneducated engineer addresses reality. The educated engineer addresses the best modern ideas about reality.
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It’s not just engineering. There’s some value in being naive enough to try something.
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See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
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Exactly!
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