Scott Garrabrandt presents Cartesian Frames as being a very mathematical idea. When I asked him about the prominence of mathematics in his sequence, he said “It’s fundamentally math; I mean, you could translate it out of math, but ultimately it comes from math”. But I have a different experience when I think about Cartesian Frames- first and foremost, my mental conception of CF is as a common sense idea, that only incidentally happens to be expressable in mathematical terms (edit: when I say “common sense” here, I don’t mean that it’s a well known idea—it’s not, and Scott is doing good by sharing his ideas—but the idea feels similar to other ideas in the “common sense” category). I think both perspectives are valuable, but the interesting thing I want to note here is the difference in perspective that the two of us have. I hope to explore this difference in framing more later.
Scott Garrabrandt presents Cartesian Frames as being a very mathematical idea. When I asked him about the prominence of mathematics in his sequence, he said “It’s fundamentally math; I mean, you could translate it out of math, but ultimately it comes from math”. But I have a different experience when I think about Cartesian Frames- first and foremost, my mental conception of CF is as a common sense idea, that only incidentally happens to be expressable in mathematical terms (edit: when I say “common sense” here, I don’t mean that it’s a well known idea—it’s not, and Scott is doing good by sharing his ideas—but the idea feels similar to other ideas in the “common sense” category). I think both perspectives are valuable, but the interesting thing I want to note here is the difference in perspective that the two of us have. I hope to explore this difference in framing more later.
What’s the common sense idea?