Bliki: Paracelsus Maxim

· Martin Fowler · Sept. 2, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
Summary
The blog post discusses the concept of dosage in programming and life through the lens of Paracelsus's principle that all things can be poisons at the wrong dosage. It emphasizes that many habits, including programming practices like using global data, must be evaluated based on context and dosage rather than a simple good/bad binary.
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