I've always been simultaneously envious and saddened by some
   friends that believe in pure logic as The Solution. I'm envious
   because they have the system that works for them. But I'm
   saddened because... well.. there's glue under the chess squares
   and gaps inbetween them... there's a patina on the paint, and
   people playing, and all that stuff matters to me. So my
   'everything' is... well... yeah... it's as much of everything as
   I can consider and feel... and I try to 'hang loose' and let the
   connections happen.. and documenting as much as I can as I go
   along. I apparently have a brain that likes to analogize things
   and tells stories, so I just let it do its thing most of the
   time.

   But hence my envy: I don't have my system of systems fully
   fleshed out yet. I keep hoping _someone else_ did all the hard
   work already - "all ready" (I can just pick up a book and there
   it is).. and maybe they did... and I get closer every day... but
   still haven't found the 'it' yet. But I'm close. I suspect I've
   been using it all along and just never gave it a name.

   But I feel that I haven't learned something _fully_ unless I can
   teach it. So, I do stuff like that. Teach as I go along. Hope to
   be corrected when I'm mistaken. Love getting feedback like yours
   and Massamo's which analogize to things I hadn't thought of -
   because I do love analogies.