A particular issue we discussed was a change Matt wanted to make to the home page of lojban.org (which I run). I told him that my first response to the change was dumbstruck horror. He suggested reasons I might have been horrified, but they all had to do with people. I hadn't thought about people at all. My thoughts weren't things like "Will this get people to the site? What kind of people?" but instead were "Will this make the computer unhappy?". To put it another, "Is this a grotesque hack?". The answer in this case was clearly "yes", and that's enough for my geek brain, hence horror.
However, I have the (apparently very rare amongs geeks) ability to say "Yes, but he's better at PR than you. Just shut up and do what he says.", so I did. The interesting part here is only that how the change would relate to the people viewing it never crossed my mind, and this fact was a surprise to Matt.
An addition.
However, I have the (apparently very rare amongs geeks) ability to say "Yes, but he's better at PR than you. Just shut up and do what he says.", so I did. The interesting part here is only that how the change would relate to the people viewing it never crossed my mind, and this fact was a surprise to Matt.
-Robin