the inverse of the hammer

Entry one of ten in "the end of the wire," a series on the terminal. Each one stands alone. Maslow's law says a tool shapes what you see. The shell has no shape to impose, which makes it a different category of thing. Give a man a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Maslow put it more carefully in 1966 — "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as…