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Meringue Philosophy
¶ I published this entry both in my old and new blogs, and I repost it here in its entirety. Short intro in metaphysics¶ From ancient times - I mean, really ancient, all the way before Plato, Aristotle and all, people have been entertaining themselves with a fancy question: what does the world consist of? What is the reality surrounding us? What is there? What is it like? Why? Objects¶ There are apples and oranges, and there is the apple in front of me.
As a quick and cheap way of checking its vitality is to make sure that a concept is not a made-up word that suits some particular implementation, it’s present in a language. That’s how TDD works; that’s how a product is developed in a lean startup way; that’s what growth hacking marketing is mostly about. I find metaphysics to fit enterprise software development discovery and implementation needs perfectly.
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