Humans love to put things in boxes.

· Bits and Bobs 11/24/25
  • Humans love to put things in boxes.
    • Then you can take the messy, amorphous reality, abstract it away, and have just a clean, easy-to-reason-about box.
    • We do it all over the place
      • Chunking.
      • Coarse-graining.
      • Wrapping code into a function.
      • An app for software to abstract over your data.