For what it's worth, I thought "uniform" was a fine description - as you zoom out, the pattern looks more organised and less random. That is a property of uniform distributions.

https://bookdown.org/kevin_davisross/probsim-book/sec-linear...

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Funnily enough this happened to me.

Earlier in my career I had a very intense, productive working day and then blundered a rebase command, deleting all my data.

Rewriting took only about 20 minutes.

However, like an idiot, I deleted it again, in the exact same way!

This time I had the muscle memory for which files to open and where to edit, and the whole diff took about 5 minutes to re-add.

On the way out to the car park it really made me pause to wonder what on earth I had been doing all day.

In case you didn’t know, doesn’t delete the commit. You can use `git reflog` to find the commits you were recently on and recover your code.

Sometimes you really wonder where your time went. You can spend 1 hour writing a perfect function and then the rest of the day figuring out why your import does work in dev and not in prod.

I also once butchered the result of 40 hours of work through a loose git history rewrite. I spent a good hour trying different recovery options (to no avail) and then 2 hours typing everything back in from memory. Maybe it turned out even better then before, because all kind of debugging clutter was removed.

Sometimes, I spend an hour writing a perfect function, and then spend another hour re-reading the beauty of it, just to be pointed out how imperfect the function is in the PR review :))

This is a beautiful example of functional thinking. The ability to see the attributes and and requirements of a system rather than the items themselves.

Harvard offer a free online course called “lab to market” which among other things teaches a systematic way of using this to help uncover startup opportunities. In short, you use functional thinking to match the functionality of nascent technology “seeds” to the functionality required by an identified market’s needs.

Moreso, the implications, opportunities and hazards of such things.