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Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
marick@mstdn.social ("Brian Marick") wrote:
“To be oriented toward the writings of intellectuals is to be conscious of the community itself, stretching both backwards and forwards in time” – Collins, /The Sociology of Philosophies/, p. 27
That’s something I realize we in software miss. I remember attending a retirement dinner for a vet school professor. It struck me how much he was knowingly part of a *lineage*.
In software, we have a lineage, but we’re not conscious of it. I’d say that’s, on balance, a problem.