🔗 The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything

It starts innocently.

You rename a batch of files with a ten-line Python script, or you alias a common git command to shave off two keystrokes. Maybe you build a small shell function to format JSON from the clipboard.

You’re not even trying to be clever. You’re just solving tiny problems. Making the machine do what it should have done in the first place. And then something happens. You cross a threshold. You look at your tools, your environment, your operating system—even your editor—and suddenly everything is fair game.

You could rebuild that (if you wanted to).
You could improve that (if you wanted to).

Then someone challenges you. As banter maybe, perhaps jokingly but also with a dash of hope. Then the air in the room changes.

It suddenly becomes something else. It becomes:

You should.

And from that moment forward, the world is broken in new and specific ways that only you can see.