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I really do not like the assumption people don’t do something because they don’t want to it.

I really want to make the system work reliably but I can’t. I’ve spent 30+ years trying to make things work. They just don’t.

It works when I have planned to do things ahead of time, but I can’t get my brain to remember to do it when interrupted, the attention shift doesn’t trigger “callbacks” or “publish events”. This is a fundamental prerequisite to make this work.

People’s who can do this will have difficulty not understanding people who can’t.

This same problem applies to “thinking before I speak”. I can’t do that. People think I can because I don’t make the same mistakes by rote learning what not to say in specific situations. I can’t anticipate new mistakes or generalize previous ones.



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