[dpwm]

Same here. After adopting this approach, I haven't had to look it up since.

The real question I have left: why is this so intuitive for cp, but completely counterintuitive for ln?

I wonder if is because we think of how we would follow the link.

[iandanforth]

This. "I want something here that points to there" is how I always think about it. That's why "link" on my boxes is mapped to "ln -s" with the arguments swapped :)