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+id: 2026-03-15T12:38:20-04:00
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+title: 2026-03-15 12:38:20
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+  - destiny/permanent
+  - status/draft
+  - type/periodic/timestamped
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+date-created: 2026-03-15T12:38:20-04:00
+daily: "[[2026-03-15]]"
+weekly: "[[2026-W11]]"
+monthly: "[[2026-03]]"
+quarterly: "[[2026-Q1]]"
+yearly: "[[2026]]"
+---
+# 2026-03-15 12:38:20
+
+I have this idea that people generally respond better to a good analogy
+than to a well-reasoned argument,
+so I'm frequently disappointed in myself
+for being unable to come up with one.
+
+It ought to be easy for me.
+When I'm sure of something,
+my certainty invariably manifests in the form of an analogy,
+only the parallel concepts are just that,
+and they resist my attempts to define them.
+
+I feel now that this judgement might be baseless anyway.
+Without the pressure of organizational enforcement,
+radical changes in thinking necessarily take years of incremental changes.
+No matter how much better the new framework is,
+a person must work up to the change,
+otherwise their trust in it will be hollow.
+At least that has been my experience in the past few years;
+knowing that a shovel is better for digging ditches,
+but still using a gardening trowel
+because it's what I'm comfortable with.
+It doesn't frustrate me when others use trowels,
+only when they can't acknowledge the benefits of the shovel.
+
+Like that one, most of the analogies I want to make
+would be intended to demonstrate why an action would be foolish.
+It would be fitting to write in [anapestic tetrameter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anapestic_tetrameter)
+a la [[seuss_1937_mulberry-street]].