--- layout: post title: "I wasn’t denying its usefulness, besides in the deliberately dramatic phrasing of the code rule." date: 2018-01-25 --- I wasn’t denying its usefulness, besides in the deliberately dramatic phrasing of the code rule. Just questioning whether it is useful besides *self*-reflection. I have a tendency to if not weaponise, at least *wield *philosophy - that this rule is in place (and deliberately exaggerated) to combat.