ncubeeight

 Long ago when I was studying French, I came across an idiomatic means of expressing a question about a word or thing. If you want to ask a French speaker to help you with defining a word’s meaning, you can ask, “What does it want to say?” (Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire?) I liked the idea that the word actually is personified as a willful entity in this question’s framing. The word has a desire or a will that needs to be considered. Over time, I used to think of technology problems in this way. If a computer wasn’t functioning properly, I’d frame it as “What is the computer wanting to say/do? And how am I seeing it try to do that? And what’s the result? If you ever have a strange behavior of an app or computer process, walking through the steps to diagnose how they communicate will sometimes help you troubleshoot. By narrowing down the steps in their way of reasoning/acting, you can often isolate the problems and facilitate the process such that the device can achieve it’s goal, which...