{"id":1088,"date":"2026-03-21T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:47:10","slug":"everything-is-a-nail-or-at-least-it-ought-to-be-dan-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/everything-is-a-nail-or-at-least-it-ought-to-be-dan-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201ceverything is a nail, or at least it ought to be\u201d &#8211; Dan Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe proverb \u201cif the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail\u201d ought to be seen in this context. If you really are at the stage of development where the only tool you have is a hammer, then it strikes me that it\u2019s incredibly sensible to go around looking at your various problems, and seeing if any of them could be improved by a bit of hammering\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/everything-is-a-nail-or-at-least\">https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/everything-is-a-nail-or-at-least<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe proverb \u201cif the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail\u201d ought to be seen in this context. If you really are at the stage of development where the only tool you have is a hammer, then it strikes me that it\u2019s incredibly sensible to go around looking at your&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}