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The mundane, the mystical, and the meta (2019) (defmacro.org)
2 points by pkkm on Feb 12, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I like playing with these distinctions.

It'd be interesting to flip some of these around & apply them to craftsfolk modes. We probably wouldn't want to try to re-interpret executive mode through these lenses, but I definitely felt like the split among mundane/mystical/meta also applied to engineering styles around me. Whether we are focusing on just-works simple design (mundane), building bigger scope/vision attempts (mystical) or trying to understand the balance/trends/whatever (meta).




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