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    "title": "A Few Right Ways, But Infinitely More Wrong Ways",
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    "html": "<p style=\"font-size: 80%;\">A response to the saying: \"There's no one 'right' way to do things. There are different ways of doing something that are 'right'. So stop criticizing my chosen way of doing things -- you cannot prove that it is wrong.\"</p>\n<p>For any question, there is a certain number of right answers, but an infinite number of wrong ones.</p>\n<p>Likewise, there may be more than one right way, but that number is small in comparison to the infinite number of wrong ways.</p>\n<p>Each right way is ephemeral and contingent, and has its own tradeoffs.</p>\n<p>Each right way is dependent on your current understanding as applied to your current circumstances.</p>\n<p>As your understanding changes with experience, and as your circumstances change over time, the way that is thought to right will also change.</p>\n<p>Sometimes that means realizing that your earlier understanding was wrong.</p>\n<p>The novice says: \"My new idea cannot be wrong, because there is no one right way.\"</p>\n<p>The master asks: \"Is it more likely that I have a new way that is better, or a new way that is worse?\"</p>\n<p>The novice demands \"proof\" that their way is wrong.</p>\n<p>The master asks which ways are \"better\" and which are \"worse\", and picks the best one for the situation.</p>\n<p>Sometimes the best way is still \"bad\", but better than all the others; the master knows this, and does not defend it as \"right.\"</p>\n"
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