“Premature optimization” as phrased by Musashi
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“Premature optimization” as phrased by Musashi
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#2And the way of the grind. Or daily iteration.
"Today is victory over yourself of yesterday."
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#3I wonder if the proportion of 'students' of Musashi who use this phrase as a reason for no strategy at all is the same as the number of programmers who disdain optimization of any kind?
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#4That could as easily go either way.
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#5Who said that "unripe strategy" = "strategy defined too early"?
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#6Who said that "unripe strategy" = "strategy defined too early"?
Thanks for your question. I grant you, it could mean that the strategic thinking of the strategist is still immature. But in context I don't think it does.
Musashi lays great weight on developing keen perception of the moment and its potential. When he says _nama_ 生 'unripe' strategy, I understand him to mean strategy that is settled before conditions have ripened. That's comparable to Knuth's remark about optimizing code. I don't think Musashi means that the strategist is too inexperienced.
Although there is a vein in East Asian military theory about wizard-like long-range anticipation of strategic conditions, Musashi doesn't indulge in that.