Posted by shintoist 19 hours ago
If anything the real value is it saves my brain from going into power saving mode by lunchtime because I haven’t spent the day reading pages of output when a sentence or two would do.
Early on, it mattered to say "Avoid" (an active word) "action", rather than "Do" (affirmative) "not" (negation) "action" (affirmative again).
These days I take a pass on the rules to remove the bad thing from the rule and rephrase in terms of the desired behavior instead.
So it doesn't have to try to do not think about the pink elephant.
A new catchphrase every twenty years is hardly sustainable at my age :)