July
@july
I'd say people who deal with words - poets, being one of them (writers in general) are going to understand words a lot better than software engineers who don't think about the downstream consequences of emotional impact of memory, individually and collectively. So yeah, they probably would consider the weight that names have and take it seriously. example: for a non technical vibe coder - the difference between a well engineered product and vibe coded app is close to zero until they get into the details. same with naming.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Like most things, there's a big element of sales/marketing in naming. I don't think this is a skill that poets are necessarily predisposed to. Neither are programmers. But it's a necessary skill to develop to survive as an independent creator: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/0x0f804c76
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Alex
@amado
A lifetime ago, I worked as an educator teaching English as a second language. I often found that students would try to translate words directly from their native language into English, relying on the first word in a dictionary definition without fully grasping the nuances and contextual differences that make English so complex.
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Mo
@meb
Naming is such an important thing. It’s the reason for industry specific jargon. In one word, you can mobilise a number of concepts, goals and outcomes and use that as a conversation building block without re describing everything to each other
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