Pruning bonsai trees left to grow

from /unnamed-project/plants-metaphors-atomization.

Bonsai and Scrapbox

• Scrapbox is sometimes compared to a bonsai tree. Like a bonsai tree, we sometimes feel that Scrapbox has not been cared for very much and has been left to grow. The process of pruning and arranging a bonsai is similar to the process of organizing, duplicating and deleting information.

• Scrapbox.bonsai と例えたことがあったがその比喩で行くとここは、余り手入れされずとりあえず伸びるに任せている感がある

• Metaphor polysemy.

  • After developing an image, then you can say, "Well, which one shall I choose as an expression of this place?" You have a larger vocabulary to express the image, and it's easier to talk about it.

• pruning of bonsai left to grow.

  • tangled roots
    • Pruning bonsai trees left to grow

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