I believe in going by the book. Even if I have experience the book might be wrong I’m still not going to feel right until I see a different book with better information. The longer I sail more reluctant I am to depart from the book. Here is a good post: First Principles: The Building Blocks of T…

An example of an error is the idea many mariners have that a ship in beam seas will roll heavily. This is a result of thinking by analogy, if there are many examples of ships in beam seas rolling than experience tells us beam seas cause rolling. However if we ask why do ships roll in beam seas the…

Your understanding of the relationship between cooking and chefs is flawed. I speak from the standpoint of being married to a chef who worked in a nationally ranked restaurant and whose friends are mostly chefs. There are two kinds of chefs, pastry chefs and sous chefs. Pastry must be done by the b…

Well, it’s an analogy. An analogy has two parts, the source and the target. The source is something we understand and the target is the thing we are trying to explain. In order for an analogy to work some simplifying assumptions have to be made. But that’s OK because we are trying to explain the …

Musk is an asshole. Tesla and SpaceX are scams. Time will tell if my second statement is correct.

Yes Musk does seem like an asshole. And both those articles were too long. Richard Feynman on the other hand was admired for his good character. It’s about the approach to solving problems. I feel like I am on more solid ground when my experience and the book match. Sometimes you just need to fi…

[image] Kennebec_Captain: And both those articles were too long. Interesting analysis but much too wordy. Urban proves the point that he’s a middling cook.

Cooking is an interesting analogy with regards to know-how vs knowledge. I was flipping through channels one evening and came across the cooking show Chopped. Even an excellent cook would quickly fail if they can’t cook without a recipe. The show is set-up on purpose so that know-how is not enough,…

As OneEighteen noted, analogies have to be used with great care. If you do not get the source (here, cook/chef) exactly right, a reader who knows the source well will not only reject the analogy but be skeptical of what you say about things the reader does not know well. In this case the spectrum is…

IIRC the last time I saw you it was on a motorcycle with a bad tire.

Ah, The Edge. That wasn’t me, that was Hunter S. Thompson :slightly_smiling_face: Cheers, Earl

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