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{I want to use this bit, but not yet sure how to work it in.} A few months ago in [meta meta](/2020/5/20/), I wrote: > Methodology cults like Agile, Getting Things Done, and the recently emerging > nerd-frenzy over the Zettelkasten method are rife with process obsessions, > semi-stable patterns of recurring inquiry/argument, and people who mainly use > their methods of choice to refine their methods of choice. So about the phrase "methodology cult". A couple of years ago, I was standing around with some friends at a festival. Let's say it was in the woods in southern Colorado, although it might have been on the uncannily flat surface of an alkali lakebed in Nevada, or maybe a muddy county fairgrounds in Kansas. Like everyone in our immediate field of view, we were dressed outlandishly, surrounded by weird temporary structures, and at least mildly intoxicated. Repetitive music throbbed in the background from multiple sources. "Are we in a cult?" someone asked. "Welllll..." someone else replied.

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