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David BothThe Linux Philosophy for SysAdminshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3730-4_23

23. There Is No Should

David Both1 
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Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
 

This had not really been one of my tenets until I began writing this book and especially the part about the contest I created for Opensource.com. It struck me as I was writing that section that I had already used the phrase, “There is no should,” more than once. I even discussed it briefly way back in Chapter 2, so I started thinking about this in a new way and decided that it really should be a tenet.

This tenet is about possibilities. It is also the most Zen of all of the chapters in this book. It is more about how our minds work to solve problems than it is about specific ...

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