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    • AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
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Lose the Try

04 Jan 2026 - 11 Jan 2026
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    • I was always bugged by that famous line of Yoda's, Do or do not, there is no try. So fucking anti-human, anti-democratic, anti-rational. And yet with undeniable wisdom to it. And this is not something George Lucas pulled out of his ass, the exactly same message may be found in ZMBM and elsewhere. Trying is bad, goals are bad, you shoul be perfectly natural like the beasts of the field.
    • But of course (duh) ZMBM says explicitly that you have to practice to be natural, and Yoda did of course impose rigorous training on his disciple.
    • Sorry there is a whole book on this Trying not to Try. What am I not-trying to say here?