like, no joke, as bad as taking someones ideas and calling them your own is a problem, half remembered conversations and fuzzy memories of journal paper titles and paper abstracts you heard at the coffee maker are how so much innovation, science (and writing, video, etc). and no one remembers the authors very well because, the thinking goes, you can just find it again, right?
you cannot find it again. because the piece that gives you your breakthrough was you quarter remembering a methodology section and even the Eldest Librarian cannot find it in elsevier's firey depths.
and that's like, fine. it's expected.
but online? ohh if you're thinking you came up with something but it turns out ten years ago you actually read it on some guy's blog? irredeemable. enemy for life.
but here? there's no way to do more than vaguely remember the post and maybe the author but was that a share or the author or.. was it the author resharing it or was it in a reply (never to be found if you only remember OP content)?
anyway read your Kuhn, kids. not because Structure is a good guide or even a good system for thinking about the world (on it's own). but because the part of it about The Discourse being largely about people gradually aligning towards a scientific revolution through talking to each other is absolutely true, even if the rest of the book isn't as useful imo.
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