[Noumenon72]

If they're going to build their entire site around the "packers vs mappers" metaphor, they need to do way more to explain and justify it than this:

> What is presented as socially conditioned conventional thinking (called packing) is based on action. To be a good bricklayer, a packer must know what a bricklayer does.

> To understand what programmers really do, an alternative strategy of thinking (called mapping) is necessary

The reason they don't put any effort into describing what "mapping" and "packing" mean when applied to thinking, is that all they really mean is "smart (like us)" and "dumb (like everyone around us)". Packers are compared to illiterates, they're slow, they don't try to do better, they're illogical. Packing = things we don't like.

Compare to useful categorizing like "lumpers and splitters" in taxonomy, where both ends of the spectrum are respectable and worth keeping in mind as heuristics.