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id: 2026-03-15T12:38:20-0400
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title: 2026-03-15 12:38:20
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- status/draft
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date-created: 2026-03-15T12:38:20-04:00
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daily: "[[2026-03-15]]"
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# 2026-03-15 12:38:20
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I have this idea that people generally respond better to a good analogy
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than to a well-reasoned argument,
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so I'm frequently disappointed in myself
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for being unable to come up with one.
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It ought to be easy for me.
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When I'm sure of something,
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my certainty invariably manifests in the form of an analogy,
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only the parallel concepts are just that,
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and they resist my attempts to define them.
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I feel now that this judgement might be baseless anyway.
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Without the pressure of organizational enforcement,
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radical changes in thinking necessarily take years of incremental changes.
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No matter how much better the new framework is,
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a person must work up to the change,
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otherwise their trust in it will be hollow.
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At least that has been my experience in the past few years;
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knowing that a shovel is better for digging ditches,
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but still using a gardening trowel
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because it's what I'm comfortable with.
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It doesn't frustrate me when others use trowels,
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only when they can't acknowledge the benefits of the shovel.
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Like that one, most of the analogies I want to make
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would be intended to demonstrate why an action would be foolish.
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It would be fitting to write in [anapestic tetrameter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anapestic_tetrameter)
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a la [[seuss_1937_mulberry-street]].
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