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Oct 1, 2021Liked by Applied Complexity Science

This relates to your previous article about sources of variety and importing vs. generating locally. I have to import (buy) a tools because I don't have the ability to generate them locally. Each one of those tools generally does one thing very well, but I can combine the output of the different tools in new combinations and even use them to create new tools for repetitive tasks. There might be a jig I could buy that already does what I need to do, but it will never be as good as the jig I create using my existing tools.

I've been using UNIX since the early 90s and that is the way the tools on UNIX work. I have to admit as well that I have never made the connection to other settings and processes outside of computing.

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