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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago
Great post by @altimor with a useful coinage: the Tough Tomato principle. Tomatoes were bred to be tougher than “ideal” to withstand the industrial tomato-harvesting process. Incentive systems everywhere similarly create tough tomatoes in *all* sorts of contexts https://t.co/3XBc6GXEjR
Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago
Replying to @visakanv
Tough tomato cinematic universe https://t.co/Y8rYkLUmCA
Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago
Replying to @visakanv
Just occurred to me that industrial schooling is tomato toughening for the child’s mind Cc @webdevMason https://t.co/0rmIbpvE0c
Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 7 years ago
To me, school today is like medicine before people learned about germ theory and hand-washing. Creative souls die every day and most people shrug the way they must’ve when women and children used to die in childbirth. Leaves from the vine... https://t.co/EnrzXNXgt1
