Just to add to the analogies I drew in "The Power of the Context". In baseball, an "error" (or "failiure") is not catching a catchable flyball, etc., But, striking out is not an "error" or "failure" -- it is better considered as "the overhead for sometimes accomplishing something really difficult".
To bring this analogy to Xerox Parc, the technical aspects of computing -- such as building a physical computer or an operating system or new programming language -- should be successful "98%" or more of the time (this is roughly the fielding percentage in baseball). These require technical skills for which quite a bit of knowledge and practice has to be acquired... (read more)
Just to add to the analogies I drew in "The Power of the Context". In baseball, an "error" (or "failiure") is not catching a catchable flyball, etc., But, striking out is not an "error" or "failure" -- it is better considered as "the overhead for sometimes accomplishing something really difficult".
To bring this analogy to Xerox Parc, the technical aspects of computing -- such as building a physical computer or an operating system or new programming language -- should be successful "98%" or more of the time (this is roughly the fielding percentage in baseball). These require technical skills for which quite a bit of knowledge and practice has to be acquired... (read more)