Shell, Shield, Staff

This is a linkpost for Shell, Shield, Staff by SquirrelInHell, published 2018-01-25. The author has passed away and the blog may eventually disappear, so I wanted to preserve the full text here. May it serve you as well as it has served me.第一There is a certain high-level pattern of progress seen in almost every human activity, which I like to call growth triplets. A growth triplet follows an archetypal sequence of three stages: naive, clever, and wise, with the exact meanings of these terms…