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Posted by Gary Carson
Oct 29, 2015 at 03:12 PM
“They all follow the same pattern - enthusiastic use and exploration followed by a moment of frustration, and then they fall off.”
Isn’t this a textbook definition of CRIMPing?
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 29, 2015 at 04:14 PM
Gary Carson wrote:
>“They all follow the same pattern - enthusiastic use and exploration
>followed by a moment of frustration, and then they fall off.”
>
>Isn’t this a textbook definition of CRIMPing?
It might be that there are different types of CRIMPing and maybe not all of them are pathological.
There is the textbook definition, which suggests that it’s a chronic malady, a type of addiction.
But there may also be a positive variety, part of a problem-solving stage, when one is looking for, learning about, and trialling a variety of tools and developing the optimal worklows with them.
At the end of that process one finds the tools one was looking for, and CRIMPing is over. One moves into a stage of maintenance, occasionally replacing a tool with a more suitable one within one’s relatively permanent suite of tools.
This might explain why some users get very active on this forum for a while, and then they drop off. Maybe they’ve just found the tools that have more or less permanently solved their problem (like the Org Mode chap in the other thread).