> Progress happens too slowly to notice, setbacks happen too fast to ignore
Seems to be an answer to a lot of social issues.
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#72> Median family income adjusted for inflation was $29,000 in 1955. In 1965 it was $42,000. Today it’s just over $62,000. We think of the 1950s and 1960s as the golden age of middle-class prosperity. But the median household today has roughly twice the income as the median family of 1955. I mean, sure, but I'm pretty sure the median household income today is from 2 working adults, where 1955 and 1965 are a single work…
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This better fits the "compelling narrative" rather than "surprising events" mode. Perhaps combining them. The right story, told the right way, at the right time.
Who was not surprised by bus boycott happening? Because i read about that lately and Parks herself was long term frustrated by passivity of general public. Yes she was activist, but one of few and precisely her experience of activism make her not expect anything big happening. She experienced failure after failure, hoping merely for next generation to achieve something.
The boycott itself, and its success, was a historical supprise.
The Rosa Parks refusal was storytelling which lead to that surprise.
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Who was not surprised by bus boycott happening? Because i read about that lately and Parks herself was long term frustrated by passivity of general public. Yes she was activist, but one of few and precisely her experience of activism make her not expect anything big happening. She experienced failure after failure, hoping merely for next generation to achieve something.
The boycott itself, and its success, was a historical supprise. The Rosa Parks refusal was storytelling which lead to that surprise.
How was parks refusal storytelling?
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What about code katas? I have five or so software designs that I've implemented several times for practice. A database, a bytecode VM, a serverside web framework etc. I'm not so much porting them, rather trying my best to reimagine them in a new context. It helps me see similarities and differences between languages/platforms and find better ways to solve problems. I've been practicing software for 35 years, martial…
I don't have 35 years of experience in software development, yet, so I may be totally out of depth here. In this case, I think it's not the re-implementation that matters; rather, you have learned some new things and you applied the new knowledge into practice. You're actively comparing different contexts and tools. That's kinda different from what the original comment said about doing it the Karate Kid way. Secondly…
I've played some guitar, it's not so much rote learning I'm trying to describe as spontaneously playing riffs; whatever that means on a violin...
I enjoy every step of the way and I'll switch or drop any project without missing a beat as soon as they become boring for whatever reasons. I think a big part of the fear of starting projects is really issues with dropping things.
In a way my katas are the problems I'm currently grappling with, and have for some time; they're sort of where you end up when you've tried writing most kinds of code. And seeing them from different angles and starting over and over again is the most effective way I've found to figure them out.
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Claudette Colvin [1] did “the bus refusal” nine months earlier. Alas Claudette was not a sympathetic public figure (she had an affair with a married white man), so the NAACP engineered a re-enactment with Rosa. I think what Colvin did took much more bravery. And in providing inspiration for Parks’s actions, she’s an under-appreciated hero of the civil rights movement. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvi…
I mean, Colvin did not had to pay price Parks paid. And Parks knew what it will cost. And no Parks sit in was not engineered by NAACP. It was her own decision at the moment. It would be pretty hard to stage that situation. It even seem she had legal right to stay sit, the driver did not had to press for charges and the bus did not had to be full... Besides, the massive protests after surprised everyone including Park…
You seem misinformed. Did you read the article? What "price" are you referring to, that Colvin didn't pay but Parks did?
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Most fields have only a few laws. When I've had the opportunity to talk with true experts in different fields, I was surprised to find that they tend to focus in very few factors, unlike books or other practitioners. Wasn't Karate Kid training something like that? The master was only interested in a few exercises that were done doing repetitive tasks apparently unrelated to fight.
That’s probably because the experts are focused on their current task at hand, and most easily recalled the few things that are relevant to the task. Movies and stories don’t portray real life experience, as they cannot juggle all the relevant factors of an expertise without confusing the audience. I don’t know about martial arts. But at least in the few professions I do understand, you cannot just do a few exercises…
>I don’t know about martial arts. But at least in the few professions I do understand, you cannot just do a few exercises diligently for ten years and come out a master.
As a guy who did martial arts and competed in small tournaments, and as a recent fan of sumo, victories are more won by narrow experts. They learn the basics enough to not be surprised, find something that works for them, and then intensely focus on how to set up fights so their specialty works.
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The boycott itself, and its success, was a historical supprise. The Rosa Parks refusal was storytelling which lead to that surprise.
How was parks refusal storytelling?
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I mean, Colvin did not had to pay price Parks paid. And Parks knew what it will cost. And no Parks sit in was not engineered by NAACP. It was her own decision at the moment. It would be pretty hard to stage that situation. It even seem she had legal right to stay sit, the driver did not had to press for charges and the bus did not had to be full... Besides, the massive protests after surprised everyone including Park…
You seem misinformed. Did you read the article? What "price" are you referring to, that Colvin didn't pay but Parks did?
Loosing the job and impossibility to get new employment in the city. She lost all white clients except one which was big hit financially. Being very low on money having to accept help.
Being hated in the city. Getting harassment and tons of hate calls. Those impacting her husbands mental health a lot.
Effectively life became much harder for her and later she had to move away. Neither her nor her husband nor her mom gained anything personal but lost a lot.
Colvim herself once commented on that too and on pressure she seen Parks under after. She was ressentful they did not trusted her, but glad she was not in Parkers place. They knew each other.
It is not like Colvin and Parks were first blacks defiant in the bus. But Parks was using Colvins story for months and Colvin joined her group.
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How was parks refusal storytelling?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24588363
That does not make Parks refusal story telling at all? That is just somebody else also defiantly refusing to stand up?
No part of Claudette story contradits anything I wrote. No part of detailed Parks story co tradicta none of that either.
Neither of the two were the first black arrested on the bus. Arrests, beatings, occasional murders or rape happened before the two. The segregation was not keeping itself magically before. But yes, Parks and also women political council and also NAACP were all influenced by Colvin (who became member of Parks youth group). And Colvin was influenced by priors too.