Food for thought: "Travel light"

EricShulman January 30, 2026, 5:32pm 11

Charlie_Veniot:

did everything with Microsoft Excel.

“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” (Maslow’s Hammer)

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Law of the instrument

The law of the instrument, law of the hammer, Maslow's hammer, or golden hammer[a] is a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. Abraham Maslow wrote in 1966, "it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." The concept is attributed both to Maslow and to Abraham Kaplan, although the hammer and nail line may not be original to either of them. The English expression "a Birmingham screwdriver", meaning a hammer, refers t...

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