I like to know how things work. I would love to take things apart and put them together again, to get a better understanding of what makes them tick. Of course, any of you who caught my messages during my recent WordPress upgrade for the blog knows that can be a bad idea.
The "seeing what makes things tick" meme is fraught with bad examples considering the next example I can think of is Sylar from NBC’S "Heroes" (www.nbc.com/heroes), whose ability to see how things work feeds a curiosity that turns him into a murderous animal. See?
But if I find that I take the trouble to figure out how something works, I can conquer the problem. Social media gives us extra sets of eyes to help us see (that’s how I figured out how I screwed up WordPress). Plus, seeing from a high level how all the parts fit togehter truly is a remarkable power. Isn’t it?
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