but you only really get good when all that stuff becomes unconsciousI think a lot of becoming good at something is (1) learning to pay attention to things you're not used to paying attention to—where your body is, perceptual saliencies—and then (2) mapping the territory of these things that you pay attention to, learning to distinguish subtle gradations between states, and understanding the ramifications those gradations have. A difference that makes a difference
Def... the intentionality from Command becomes very macro-level ("play this song gently in the style of Bach") and everything else flows, the hands know what to dobut you only really get good when all that stuff becomes unconscious
Conversely, the worst part of coding is when you're tossed into a foreign city of the codebase, or worse, its wilderness. A part of the codebase you don't know. You don't know its customs or history and everything is quite illegible. You don't understand how the functions fit together or the logic behind how people do things. It's a very palpable overwhelmed feeling of high entropy.its what i liked about coffee work. you get to a point where you are very in control, you know exactly how milk flows, all the forces of the machine, all the weights and shapes of the utensils and crockery etc, how to move
you acquire drives and desires and fantasy as and etc. as you go about life and they come together to form a Frankenstein's monster in your head that all your newer experiences revolve around and are audited by before they reach you. instead of having an above/below unconcious/concious deal you've got a cybernetic system where conscious focus is one node on the grid of experience and you need to know whats happened to a phenomenon 'before' it reaches your desk to really understand itI didn't quite understand the secretary bit to be fair.
So I think many of the things we do aren't some dark lurking part of Command, like a Deep State (altho there is some of that surely) but just that the various localities have minds of their own, quite literally, and need managing, and your spotlight or telescope roves around as needed. You can't multitask on two command-intensive tasks like say having a philosophical conversation and centering your clay. The telescope can only be in one place
... Tea, who is eternal.
i just said there was, duhits possible that theres more than one thing you can interface with. a personal unconscious and a load of other stuff