taxonomies can be constraining
Let structure emerge organically. When it's imposed from the start, you prematurely constrain what may emerge and artificially compress the nuanced relationships between ideas.
— https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Prefer_associative_ontologies_to_hierarchical_taxonomies
Nature has no outline, but imagination has.
— William Blake
taxonomies are impossible to be perfect - most things in real world are fuzzy
taxonomies are trees, connections are semilattices
related to links and creating trails between ideas
this idea is also related to computational DAGs - building a graph of computation, instead of organising everything into a tree of objects
in a sense connections are like tools, and taxonomies are like app pickers
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