Clojurians Log v2

I often hear Clojurians refer to the term leverage, as if it has special meaning to the community. Is there a canonical talk(s) or article(s) I can read to learn about the special flavor this word has for Clojurians? Of course I understand the usual meaning.

Maybe “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqY4nUMfus8&ab_channel=ClojureTV” by Halloway?

That term doesn't stand out to me as anything special relating to Clojure. Interested to hear if others hear anything specific

Do you have an example of a clojurey usage of the word?

Yeah that was the talk that came to mind when you mentioned the word

I don't think there is any special meaning but people in the Clojure community are probably more interested in maximizing value per effort than other language communities (imho)

Economy of expression is important. I recently tried to read a java code base. I gave up, couldn't figure out where the algorithm I was looking for was hidden. Ain't nobody got time for that :face_with_hand_over_mouth: ok it's friday stop ranting, Tom. 🙈

Someone on Twitter once compared Clojure with David (as in, the man who beat Goliath with a slingshot). Using the simple, small tool (relatively) that Clojure is, there can be a lots accomplished, "beating the averages".

It shows up in a fair number of Rich Hickey's talks. https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/search?q=leverage

That's the most eloquent way I've been called lazy in a while 😉

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I remember reading a research paper back in 2008 about how "the amount of code a coder can see at once greatly determines comprehension" -- so if you can see more of the program at once you can follow it better. Makes sense... maybe why some people turn their monitors from widescreen to portrait.