Re: Old directions in social media.

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Fri, 08 January 2021 18:32 UTC

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From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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On 1/8/21 12:33 PM, tom petch wrote:

>
> That the tool has little to do with it.  If someone is incompetent 
> with a mattock, then likely they will be incompetent with a spade or a 
> shovel.  If they lack the methodology, the discipline, the approach, 
> then the choice of tool is likely to be of little import, especially, 
> as has been pointed out here, the tools were designed for other arenas 
> of work, such as code. 

Agree with that much.  But in the hands of a competent individual, the 
choice of tools matters a great deal.   And one kind of competence is 
being able to choose more effective tools.

Keith