"Nearly all significant change in human behaviors, individual or group, depends on three things: a new technique, a new mindset, and a path that can reach both. The geek trades generally overvalue the technique, undervalue the mindset, and ignore the path altogether. If we’re to change the trajectory of the trade, we need to attend to mindset and path both. A rough understanding of the ideas of frame, worldview, and culture will be very useful in that endeavor. That begins with the meaning(s) of that well-known aphorism. When we have a problem, we come up with a solution using our tools. That’s about as dictionary-straightforward as one can possibly be. The tools shape the solution that we come up with. But that is not what that saying means."

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