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“This is again prone to mistakes in trying to satisfy our being needs wit having things.”

The most thought-provoking thing I’ve read in a while. Admittedly it’s a restatement of a fairly common idea (creating a material want from some other want or need) but I’ve never seen it phrased like this.

In particular, it reminded me of times I’ve bought books about some shiny new tech and only read a few pages. In hindsight, maybe it was mostly about the kind of dev I’d like to become.