"If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will" - Gregory McKeown

Priority is singular

Data and Reality - William Kent

• data models are techniques for representing information, sufficiently structured and simplistic as to fit well into computer technology
• A model is more than a passive medium for recording our view of reality. it shapes that view, and limits our perceptions. if a mind is committed to a certain model, then it will perform amazing feats of distortion to see things structured that way, and it will simply be blind to the things which dont fit that structure
• language defines experience for us
• Think of a small army of technical personell (also applies to other groups of people and their terminologies and structures and language) who have been indoctrinated in a particular way of conceptualizing data, and who have mastered the intricacies of a new language and the attendant operational procedures.