Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Things that are similar tend to be near one another. The same seems to hold for people.

I am sure someone has already named and explained this law. Oh look, here is an actual definition.

Oh well, I won’t get credit for inventing this. It is a shame that few persons understand the existence of the law, what it means, and how to use it.

In software development, it is known as the error-prone module. If I find several errors in one piece of software, there are probably a bunch more in there that I haven’t found yet.

Write Edward Abbey spent a few years of his life looking for lost people in the desolate American southwest. When they found the dead body of the lost person, they often found the remains of another dead person nearby. It seems that there are places in nature where people stumble and die—proximity.

I find it a tragedy that there are some people who attract tragic persons. Those about them tend to have tragic lives filled with bad decisions and bad results. Perhaps those persons at the center of all this tragedy have a tragic effect on others.

Please, if you find such persons at the center of tragedy, run away.