overemphasis of the discrete blog post

Matt Might stated that computer programmers tend to optimize for the discrete past the point of usefulness. Random stuff, each new piece of technology is a shiny gadget. Even worse is the intention of only using old gadgets to retrofit and quanitfy each part of our lives

Notes Nov 13th, 2022

Re-visiting this, it’s important to think about how it’s usually easier to see discrete things than continous ones.
- Missing the structure for the facade