So me and my good friend yash decided to start blogging. We have talked about it for a while but never got round to doing it. Yash's writing style is way better than mine maybe because I got a C in English and he got an A and I never went to oxford [you're such a loser bro - Yash]. P.S i didn't come up with the name.
While discussing how Sim City and it's city-building model could be adapted for non American cities the importance of history came to my mind. In London you see history wherever you are. Near to my house there is the disused picadilly line York Way tube station. If you stand near it and look out at the view that presents itself you see the old Victorian kings cross station next to the glass building of St Pancras Int. and many cranes helping turn abandoned industrial buildings into new skyscrapers and arts university campuses. It's a rich and interesting landscape. Another bustling recently gentrified street nearby is Upper Street which owes its original path as far back as to the Celts. In turn, London grew organically from Thames access, one of those mechanisms making up the majority of your GCSE geography knowledge.. The city just wouldn't make sense being anywhere else. History and iteration are also fundamental to how nature constructs life. Although for each gene...
Knowing how to automate is liberating, but avoiding repetitive work doesn't come at zero cost and can quickly have no use if there is no longer any work to do. So sometimes when faced with doing repetitive tasks, it's more useful not to reach for making tools but to simply get on with them. This might also require a change of attitude, to move the goalpost for how much work you think you can tolerate. At the end of the day, the tooling will get you there, but it's the result where the (initial) value lies.
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