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                                                    February 16, 2000
      Time is limited. Yes, learning stuff is
      great, "growing" is great, but learning
      everything is literally impossible. You
      can't be a master of every language,
      every OS, every software library. How
      do you make your choices? How are you
      going to decide what to learn next?

      You need some intellectual shortcuts to
      make these decisions, you've got to
      evaluate reputations, based on rants and
      rumors filtered through your own
      attitudes, your previous experiences and
      the things that you're familiar with
      already.

      This is what "ideology" is really about,
      in my opinion: not religion for religion's
      sake, but a set of shortcuts to speed
      decision making.


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