Krishnan Srinivasan

…ictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast makes an important distinction between meaning and purpose — he points out that our language around purpose implies we are in control, trying to effect an outcome. Our language around meaning, on the other hand, tends to be passive, like “this moved me.” He discriminates between meaning and purpose primarily so we can integrate the two.

…that encourage interoperability then you have a fighting chance to some emergent self-organization. When you bake in too many assumptions, then a component becomes less modular and thus less able to participate in composition.