Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@Sun.COM> writes: (01)
% It is a fascinating and at the same time lamentable fact of
% life. I hate to say it, but there are also "Engelbart
% fundamentalists". (02)
Yes, I bet there are. (03)
% It's the bane of every thought structure, imho. Gnostic
% systems are awesome. But every time one of them becomes
% a "religion", the pathways hardens into the intellectual
% equivalent of artheriosclerosis. (04)
I can see that you don't see yourself as a fundamentalist.
And you also see fundamentalism as a negative. (05)
However, fundamentalists don't feel that way. They are getting
some value out of what they are doing. (06)
What is it that they get from what they are doing? (07)
I have a book at home, which I am forgetting the
title of now, which outlines two patterns of behavior.
One based on Hope, and one based on fear. (08)
Early adoptors (you are an early adoptor , right? )
generally are not the type of people who operate
from fear. (09)
So, it is worth coming to understand, even if it is hard work,
what the engelbart fundamentalists are gaining from that point
of view. (010)
Are they protecting something? Or are they just incapable of
thinking certain ways? Or are they optimizing some variable
that is different than what you are optimizing? (011)
The people who build businesses (entreprenures) are not the
same kind of people who maintain businesses.... (012)
We need both types of people. We just have to learn what
the pattern is that is getting activated. I can name the pattern,
and recognize it. But I can not yet understand the value being
derived from it. (013)
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